Who are three people in history you admire most and why? (When I was making my list, I realized that the people I really admire are people who have touched me personally and currently. Historical figures don’t really impress me.)
- Juliette Gordon Low – the founder of the Girl Scouts.
I was a Girl Scout for most of the first 35 years of my life, and I really appreciate the skills and responsibility I learned. That’s where I learned it was okay to fail, and that’s where I learned I was capable of functioning alone – without my family if I had to (not that I wanted to).
- Ree Drummond – the Pioneer Woman.
She lives on a ranch, loves her family, cooks, blogs, home schools, gardens, and “works cattle.” She does it all! And she never takes herself too seriously.
- Margaret Aymer Oget – Presbyterian minister and professor at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta.
She is a Greek and Latin scholar, a New Testament professor, an immigrant from the West Indies, and one of the most articulate, loving, and right-headed women I know. She is the author of the current Horizon‘s Bible Study for Presbyterian Women.
What have been the three biggest news events during your lifetime and why?
- Man’s landing on the moon.
Because we reached for the stars, and got most of the way there. It gave me hope.
- Watergate.
Because it marked my loss of innocence, and the beginning of my distrust of public figures.
- 9/11.
Because it changed the country from an open and accepting society to something closed and selfish.
An Aging Liberal Hippy from the Left Coast 