She and Sherrod are a lucky couple, surrounded by amazing friends and family who offer their stead fast support throughout the campaign…. I'm a big fan of Connie Schultz, who I feel I have gotten to "know" through her columns and her Facebook page. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Schultz wrote for The Plain Dealer and her accomplishments include several articles advocating for women’s health care including this one on the Stupak Amendment back in ‘09.

Its “Great Commission” is: “Go into all the world and smile,” and its “Gospel” message is: “Don’t worry, be happy. I found her take on the campaign for the Congressional Senate seat in 2006 to be both funny and eye-opening… She describes a grueling 13 months, punctuated by funny stories and lots of love. Perhaps the reason the quote is so persistent is the way it captures the dynamic between George and Ira Gershwin. Funny, warm and smart - and with a peppery twist that suggests truth and love don't always sit easily - this is a magical summer read.Her other awards include the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award, the National Headliners Award, the James Batten Medal, and the Robert F. The book is especially relevant during this 2018 campaign season as Sherrod is running for re-election. Glee villain Sue Sylvester announced she was running for a US House seat for Ohio, and my first thought was, “whew, I’m glad she’s not running for Senate.

and His Lovely Wife illuminates through one woman’s story a marriage, our political system, our working lives, and our nation.

But beneath the surface of the water, on the ocean floor, everything is calm and secure, and that’s what an anchor tethers a boat to in a storm. From an early age, I knew that my parents once had their own dreams that died slow, agonizing deaths at the hands of their own fears. On Sunday afternoon Northway was scheduled to be the local congregation that brought the weekly chapel service to the shaken, grieving Fowler community. By delving deeply into Ellen's life, Dewberry reveals the challenges many women face as they look for a meaningful place in their relationships and the world. It’s hard to see where God is and what God is doing when there’s trouble in our lives, or in our world.

And it works really well as long as that’s the case, so long as there is nothing wrong and when everything’s all right. But in and through it all, this promise remains clear and sure: nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (8:39). By delving deeply into Ellen s life, Dewberry reveals the challenges many women face as they look for a meaningful place in their relationships and the world.They had seen bodies of young and old, common and noble, lying in the streets where they had been slaughtered, left to become shriveled horrors (Lamentations 2:21, 4:7–8). Her frank, real, humorous tale of being the life of a US Senator, and yet managing to hold on tight to her own self, her own core, her own aspirations and to use her considerable writing talents is inspiring and fun. This love story also addresses what it means to be a feminist and a woman who supports her husband and continues to pursue her career and to be her true self. As Schultz talks some about her childhood and family, I also seemed to recognize some of the circumstances portrayed in her more recent novel. He captures in verse the devastating and disorienting psychological, emotional, and spiritual distress suffered by those who lived and died during the darkest, most tragic chapter in Israel’s old-covenant history, when the Lord, in judgment, had “become like an enemy” to his own people (Lamentations 2:5).

Instead of promising people that everything is going to be all sunshine and rainbows if you will just believe in God hard enough, this kind of religion tells people that believing in God will help you make sense of the world as it is, and will steel your resolve to try to endure it, even change it. I've always liked Sherrod Brown, and as a former journalist, I wondered what it must be like for his wife to go from impartial reporter to political wife. It’s bittersweet to reflect on how full of hope for change everyone felt back in 2006 and then on through 2008. I remember it like yesterday so the answer is yes…Ira did know the story and it did make him chuckle. Something tells me that she does, but I'm not sure if I'm going to seek out her column simply because I don't know if I could take the emotional roller coaster!

Her narrative series “The Burden of Innocence,” which chronicled the life of a man wrongly incarcerated for rape, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. insightful look into the life of a political candidate and their family but touched with humor - and the love and joy between Connie and Sherrod. I really enjoyed this memoir, probably largely driven by my familiarity with the author and her husband. When the great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Heschel was asked what the most important word in the Bible was, he said that it’s the word “remember.