Who was Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira and what made her become the obsessed narcissistic mother of Hildegart? So little is known about this woman but much is known about Hildegart because of her writings. She was conceived sometime in 1914 and born at the end of the year on December 9th in Ferrol, Spain. She died 18 years later at the hands of her mother’s gun. In the meantime, she was the protégé of her mother, who held her emotionally and sometimes physically captive in their home where she was under the “protection” of her mother. We only have the Spanish movie “The Red Virgin,” to give us a glimpse of what the screenplay writer wants us to know and understand.
As I began to read this book, my first thoughts were of two other autobiographies I have read in the last ten years. One was Queen Noor (the American-born journalist who became the Queen of Jordan in 1978 – 1999) and Sophia Loren. All had sons (though the Queen had two daughters as well). All were women who were very beautiful, international sensations, and went through tough issues as women: controversies, struggles, yet rose to fame and fortune nonetheless. None of them were tactless enough to make their book about gossip, though the Queen did have a lot to say about her son not becoming King (he wasn’t in line, as was culturally acceptable). All had strong opinions but were very grounded and kind and loving.
HOMETOWN PROFILE: North Jackson woman, 99, served as ‘Rosie the Riveter’
NORTH JACKSON — Josephine “Peppy” Riffle Laakso will celebrate her 100th birthday in September. She also will be celebrating many lifetime achievements.
Yesterday, our former president was the victim of a second assassination attempt by someone who, in the least, suffered from Anti-Social Personality Disorder. ASPD is a given when an adult commits a crime. With a child, it would be called Conduct Disorder. My thinking right now is – bad luck comes in threes – the Secret Service (and other law enforcement) did a great job yesterday, now they should be even more prepared, no matter where he goes. However, crime in America is worse than it has ever been. A lack of values, a division of people, anti-Semitism not seen since WWII, attacks on freedom of speech (usually conservative), a lack of professionalism in the workplace (all the way to the political debates) and then political lies that go unchecked from a biased debate.
I had only learned of this young woman a week ago. My boyfriend mentioned her name, we looked her up and found lots of scathing reviews from liberal journalists who don’t know the first thing about psychology or survivors of communist countries. As soon as I heard more about the story, I wanted to read it immediately to see for myself. My step/adopt father came to the U.S. in 1956 from Hungary. Post-WWII, after failing as an ally (luckily), their country was communist until 1989. I grew up learning about communism, Russians and fearing this type of lifestyle. I also, myself, wrote a book about 1956, The Uprisers, in which I did an extensive amount of research. And, I am a trauma specialist in my day job.
From Youtube: Sherry Carmichael portrays Irena Carpenter, the matriarch of the first white family to settle in Delaware County Ohio, as she describes her family and their moves from Connecticut to central New York and then in 1801 to what became Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio. Music credit: “Dreamstrider” by Cody Martin
This article was copied from The Boston Hospitality Review, and the images, as explained below come from the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio. I hope you will enjoy reading this as much as I did.
By Jan Whitaker
In the summer of 1920 a woman named Mary Love opened The Maramor, a tea room-style restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The location was in a house once owned by the city’s richest man. After being vacated by his widow in 1895, the handsome 3-story building had housed a variety of tenants including doctors, a Turkish bath, and the State Palace, a Chinese-American restaurant.
Generally, I am only writing about women who have passed, but right now, our rights are on the line. We are in an era of modern suffrage, in the sense that women are being erased whenever they speak. DEI on college campuses needs to be eliminated, just as Affirmative Action was ended by the Supreme Court. There is no “inclusion” on college campuses when you “exclude” women under the guise that you are somehow looking out for people’s rights. If a man wants to pretend to be a woman, the first thing he needs to do is RESPECT women. Non-biological women do NOT get to get awards on International Women’s Day (President Biden), they do not get to invade our sororities (University of Wyoming), they do not get to go into our locker rooms (Ohio State University – Phillip Heit), and they do not get to play women’s sports.
Where is #metoo now? Where are the #feminists who profess to be concerned about women’s rights? While these two groups annihilate women, in favor of men, conservative women are standing strong and standing up to the hypocrisy we are now facing. Now we know who is really in favor of women’s rights. Now we know, what some of us have suspected all along. They didn’t burn any bra’s, they handed them over to men and asked them to join along.
Oberlin College lost a lawsuit against Gibbon’s Bakery, for trying to take down this wonderful small business owner. Do they really need to exist anymore as a college? Should you really be putting your money into a business that continues to eradicate decent people, trying to look out for the welfare of others? Kim Russell is a heroine. She will go down in history, like Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan for protecting women from men who are trying to take advantage of women. Misogynists, plain and simple. Oberlin is a misogynist and they are Anti-American, Anti-Small Business, this is not a safe place for young women to attend college.
Patience is a Virtue, but don’t sit around and wait, patiently for him to return.
Love, Sweet Passionate Love. An energy, not an emotion, words my professor spoke to me or us in class back in the late 90’s at Antioch University Santa Barbara. I had struggled until recently to begin to understand what this really might mean. We want to believe that love is based on emotions. This is what society tells us. That it is about sex, fulfilment, desires, needs being met, romance. And yet, every love story comes with a tale of how the two met. It is not a linear photograph. Remembering fondly, “When Harry Met Sally.” These two young adults met right in college; I believe they were driving somewhere together. Over the years, the two of them had a friendship, with husband/wife, break-ups, illness, and they still carried this bond, this fondness. It wasn’t until the very end of the movie that we see this, now older couple getting together, probably in their 30’s.
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Jeannine Vegh 