Women and Guns

In a previous post, I mentioned that I voted for Obama, then went out and bought a handgun.  First handgun that is mine, not my husband’s.  Yesterday, I went shooting for the first time in approximately 12 years, and shot a handgun for the first time in at least 15.  Took me a while to [...]

Women’s Interests and the Military Draft

I’m taking a break from writing a novel to actually more or less blog, and write about what it means to be a woman-or a man-and a citizen today.  As a start, I’m linking to this piece about the Israeli Defense Forces targeting female draft dodgers.  Israel, which has slowly begun to reopen the combat arms [...]