Welcome to my discussions on a puzzling array of topics. These subjects are connected only because these are the interests that I have intensively pursued in my sixty-plus years of study. I am a wanderer. Not only an enthusiastic traveler, but I wander between subjects and skills. Perhaps I am better described as scattered, but these topics provide the puzzle pieces of my life and somehow seem to be related, if only in my mind.
As a child, my first success in learning came to me through music, later I picked up German. I took my turn as a teacher in public schools and privately. I was always interested in Bible study, but that opportunity came only in maturity, when I stopped listening to the voices that said, "Off limits to women." I started seriously writing with the purchase of my first computer and spelling skills were suddenly not so important. Writing in itself was not my goal, but expressing ideas that I find important enough to share. Now I possess this patchwork quilt of many, mostly failed, efforts. When someone is blessed to acquire many years, she picks up a mass of baggage, good and bad, and also much knowledge. This website is a compilation of my thoughts in writing on diverse topics. More personally, after 45 years of marriage, raising two children, and now enjoying a granddaughter, I am a widow. The decade of my husband's illness has been its own journey. His death and the following months of adjustment have fueled another set of insights, begging to be expressed. |
My pen is a sword used to empower girls and women to pursue all their God-given gifts. My poem on the poetry page in this site explains more about the title Mary's Sword. Several more poems and essays will probably offer too much information about me. My barebone credentials are in the sidebar on this page.
BOOKS: I have written two books encouraging women to lift all human-imposed limitations placed upon them.
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Mary Stromer Hanson holds two "bread-and-butter" degrees, BA in Music Ed. and MA in Special Ed. Her "fun" degrees are an BA in German and the latest, an MA in Biblical Studies from Denver Seminary.Such varied academic creditionals say more about her inability to find her call than academic prowess or ability to be very profitable.
She married Clement Hanson, who became a military doctor and they have two children, Ben and Anne, The Hansons moved frequently in the US and lived in Germany a total of seven years until settling in Denver. Looking at herself from the point-of-view of an omniscient narrator, she would say that her strongest insights come from sixty- plus years of life experiences. |
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