WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Is Conversation Disappearing?

We have never had more ways to communicate, yet I wonder if we have forgotten how to have a conversation. I have spent much of my life talking. As a journalist, radio host, teacher, and activist, I’m familiar with the power of words. [...]

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Combatting COVID-191

Listening to Nurses

With COVID-19 propelling nurses into the headlines, I wanted to understand what it means to be a nurse.  I contacted the National Nurses Union, who put me in touch with two Maine nurses, Cokie Giles, 64, and her daughter Jessie Lambert, 38. Last week we talked via Zoom.  As members of the union, Cokie and Jessie are protected from being [...]

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