awaken

As I wrote in the original "cat lady" column, many women are slowly awakening to the fact that they hold more cards in their romantic hands than they've been previously allowed to see.

It wasn’t until I became a parent while living in New York that I became fully awakened to the upsides and downsides of raising a child in a major city.

The latter group is going to be in for a painful, literally, awakening when and if Trump and his regime take power.

“Trump is the nightmare from which we can never awaken,” Bekkala told me.

“Religious America is awakening, perhaps just in time for our country’s sake,” Reagan told a teeming crowd of evangelical voters in August 1980.