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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Dr. Judith Herman1

Can Radical Empathy Turn the Tide?

I spent the Labor Day weekend at my country retreat in midcoast Maine where I own a cottage on a quiet country road sprinkled with modest homes.  I make a practice of taking daily walks on this road, which I like to think of as my walking meditations.  On Saturday I stopped in my tracks after noticing a flag at a home’s entrance. The words [...]

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