Today's Woman of Character

Just a short one today, because the one I was going to put up needs to step aside for now.

Her daughter disappeared in Aruba in April 2005. She has worked tirelessly to find her each and every day since then. The strongest potential suspect has never been able to be charged but has in another country been found to be the prime suspect in the death of another girl and this time the authorities have been able to hold him.

It's reported in the news today that this grieving, searching mother found enough strength to go to that jail and visit that man, knowing he probably wasn't going to give her any answers.

Today's woman of character is Natalee Holloway's mom, Beth Twitty.

Today's Woman of Character

...is someone I have admired, literally as long as I can remember. Today is the 13th anniversary of the death of Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu who was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

Today's Woman of Character is Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Today's Woman of Character

...isn't actually a woman at all. On today's date in 1912 forward thinking men in Ohio gave pause to the idea that their wives, mothers, and daughters should be allowed to vote.

So let's give it to the men, today!