### progwoman’s Substack

Georgia-born New Yorker with ties to Southern Utah. Retired from editing nonfiction for young people and adults to devote more time to Mindfulness Mediation, which I sometimes teach.

#### Posts

- **[Christmas Lists and Lowered Expectations](https://www.americasundoing.com/p/christmas-lists-and-lowered-expectations)**  
  Since I’m over budget on Substacks, I’m passing this on in the hope that Corbin Trent will forgive me for sharing freely. He makes a good point, I think.

- **[Letters from an American](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/)**  
  After reflecting on the many comments about the fragile state of our education system and feeling some despair, I just wanted to remind this community that Abe Lincoln did not have the best education available in his day. Much of what he said came from fine-tuning his mind on what he learned and the history of the United States. That was…

- **[Lincoln’s Words Remembered](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-27-2024?selection=77c60def-84d4-41b5-894f-a06cd50571ba)**  
  Hear the words of 28 year-old Abraham Lincoln, as relevant today as when he spoke them!  
  “Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane,” Lincoln said, “they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much as its total annihilation.”