Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
Let’s just admit to being a little scared. It’s ok, we can still be grown ups, and be sensible and calm and scared.
When I was a child, and my mother’s hugs made almost everything OK, I remember this story. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr is the true story of a young girl, sick from leukemia, who has the goal of making 1000 paper cranes. Sadako got the idea after her friend told her about a Japanese legend which says when a sick person makes 1000 paper cranes, they will be granted a wish. Sadako’s wish was to live.
