By Rosie Molinary on April 13, 2009
So, when I was in high school, I went on a leadership retreat and one of the tasks we were given was to go off with one other person and […]
Posted in Food for Thought, Inspired, Note to Self, Raising Our Voices | Tagged journaling, Meme, reflection, self-awareness |
By Rosie Molinary on April 6, 2009
For a project that I have been developing, I wrote a list of questions to serve as an activist’s autobiography. Here I answer the first five […]
Posted in Food for Thought, Inspired, Think, Speak, Act | Tagged activism, advocacy, autobiography, education, educational philosophy, journaling, reflection, teacher, teaching |
By Rosie Molinary on April 5, 2009
Loved this quote in either the February or March issue of O the Oprah Magazine: In bathrooms, boardrooms, buses, bagel shops, and everywhere else, we all need to imagine a […]
Posted in Beautiful You, Inspired | Tagged inspiration, motherhood, Nell Merlino, O, parenting, The Oprah Magazine |
By Rosie Molinary on March 30, 2009
One of my students recently shared this prayer with me. She learned it in Nicaraqua, and thought I’d like it. It broke my heart open when I read it; it’s […]
Posted in Inspired | Tagged faith, hunger, justice, liberation theology, Nicaragua, prayer, religion, social justice, Spanish |
By Rosie Molinary on March 16, 2009
My very first year of teaching, I had the wonderful good fortune of meeting one of my dearest friends. Julie McCue taught in the classroom next door to me, and […]
Posted in Inspired | Tagged activism, Africa, charity, education, fundraising, global activism, high school, high school students, Peace Corps, philanthropy, service learning, Uganda |
By Rosie Molinary on March 9, 2009
You might recall that jewelry artist Mary Alice Mitchell designed three necklaces for Circle de Luz last year. The proceeds from the sales of those necklaces– the Isabella, the Eva, and […]
Posted in Inspired | Tagged Circle de Luz, education, giving circles, jewelry, Latinas, philanthropy, scholarship program |
By Rosie Molinary on March 2, 2009
As a former high school teacher, a current college instructor, and an education activist, I was thrilled to hear President Obama’s comments about the importance of a high school diploma and […]
Posted in Inspired | Tagged Circle de Luz, education; high school graduation; Presidential Address; Barack Obama; education deficit, girls, giving circle, Latinas, scholarship program, survival, wilderness |
By Rosie Molinary on March 1, 2009
From Eckhart Tolle’s Oneness With All Life (excerpted in O, the Oprah Magazine in the January 2009 issue): “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by […]
Posted in Beautiful You, Food for Thought, Inspired, Revolution | Tagged Eckhart Tolle, good, Nick Hornby, reflection |
By Rosie Molinary on February 23, 2009
I came across this scary statistic in my December/January 2009 issue of Hispanic. Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Texas found that children are exposed to 7 […]
Posted in Inspired, Revolution, Think, Speak, Act, What We Must Do | Tagged advertising, child safety, children, Latinos, marketing |
By Rosie Molinary on February 16, 2009
I was an African Studies major as an undergrad and one of the first things I had to for one of my classes was memorize the map of Africa and […]
Posted in Inspired | Tagged adoption, Africa, Ethiopia, orphan care, orphans |
