On March 08, 2015, Women's International Day was held. At the time, I was unaware. So given a chance to blog, I've decided to speak up as if women's day were today.  There are  reasons for my decision. For one, the statistics on female abuse is staggering. According to the UN from 40%- 70% of female homicide is committed by a husband or partner. Over 80% of human trafficking involves a female. These amounts are not tied down to one culture or one people but include industrialized nations as well. In other words, female abuse is a worldwide phenomenon.
   
      The problem is this takes place though three hundred and sixty five days a year a woman somewhere on the earth, will carry a child for nine months, bear a child in pain, rear him into adulthood and beyond, work alongside a man to put food on the table then return home to care for that child again. And, it will be done with love and long suffering. So, I ask. Why the mistreatment? Why the intolerable acts? Why the despicable nature? It is all unacceptable. Women should be honored not reviled.
    
     So I've come to my point. I would like to praise all women for their hard work.  Remember, this is your day. An excerpt from my book, The Sands of Kedar, says it best:

"No man can compare to the brilliance of a woman. No man. That is the reason they keep them subjugated because of the fear of being outwitted. They know the truth but don't want to be a mockery in the public eye. But a confident man has no fears."
    
      Let no one convince otherwise.
 
 

     Looking forward to my novels release September 17, 2015! Spent Saturday taking in a bit of history at the MFAH. "The Habsburg Splendor." Vienna's imperial lineage. As most know Archduke Ferdinand's assassination was the catalyst of WWI. A favorite quote came to mind:
"It is often said history repeats itself. We are history's children. Strive to be better." anonymous

 

 

 

"The Sands of Kedar" Paperback Releases 9/17/2015!!!

A little about the book:

The Sands of Kedar is a historical fiction romance set in the Pre-Islamic period when it was social dogma for families to bury their daughters alive. The main character of this novel, Hadeel, is a young heroine who is abandoned by her father and left to die in the Sands of Kedar when she is just an infant.  She is rescued by a young boy, a chief's son, who takes her into his family where she is raised.  The reader will follow the life of this young woman as she struggles to find her identity and acceptance in a patriarchal society that looks down up women.  It will be her instinctive bonds to the land that will help her choose: the freedom it offers, or the man she has loved all along.