*By Julie Barrett, Founder, Conservative Ladies of Washington I recently did a podcast episode about a PBS program my husband and I watched together at the request of someone close to us. We knew, going in, that the program was sure to be pushing a narrative. We...
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Can’t we all just get along?
*Julie Barrett, Founder, Conservative Ladies of Washington Do you ever just feel so weary of all the division in our communities? It’s not just on a national level, it’s in our personal lives…with our families and our friends. Sometimes it feels like there is...
Despair is UnAmerican
*By Julie Barrett, Founder, Conservative Ladies of Washington I was listening to Dave Rubin’s podcast the other day and he had Sean Spicer, Sebastian Gorka and some other conservative guy on his panel. It was a really good discussion of so many things that we,...
Post-Inauguration Ruminations
*By Rebecca Nugent, CLW Contributing Writer In the aftermath of an inauguration that many of us hoped and prayed would not come to pass, here we are. And we don't just feel the weight of an administration that is opposed to so much of what we value in this great...
Information Addiction
We have become addicted to information. Social media has made it easy for us to have the latest information at any given moment. We can have as much information as we desire from as many sources as we want. There are limitless tv stations, podcasts, social...
The Matrix of Liberty: Part 3
*By CLW Contributing Writer Today is how our country has always been. We are experiencing the birth pangs of the next chapter but so much is the same. What a dizzying, clamoring time. It’s been hard to write this article because of the magnetism of community...
Guilt By Association?
*By Rebecca Nugent, Contributing Writer One evening last summer, the residents of the small town of Snohomish were tipped off that their town would be visited by the illustrious ANTIFA and various rioters as had other parts of Seattle and outlying areas. The plan was...
It’s Time for Righteous Anger
Lately, I’ve been drawn to the story in the Gospels where Jesus goes into the temple and overturns the tables of the people who were buying and selling in what was to be a house of prayer. Jesus got mad. He was like my dad circa 1991 when he came into my bedroom and...
Courage is a Command
A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog called “Courage is Contagious.” When I go into a store and see someone else not wearing a mask, I definitely feel empowered to take off my own mask and follow suit. Courage is like that…if one person shows courage it makes us want to...
Too Big For Me
I got pregnant with my first born when I was barely twenty years old. She is now coming up on her 25th birthday this spring and is older than I was when I got pregnant with her. We were chatting the other day about adult life and how different things are when you’re...