WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Keeping My Soul Alive in Dark Times

There are too many mornings when I wake up with a heaviness.  Sometimes it’s the weight of the world. Sometimes it’s the accumulation of years, recognizing there is less time ahead of me than behind me. I have been an activist [...]

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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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