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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My Imperfect Role Models

In  interviews to promote her new biography, Becoming, Michelle Obama lavishly praises the strong role models offered by her mother, grandmother and aunt.  They seem perfect. When I reflect on the women in my family who came before me I have mixed feelings.  My paternal grandmother had a shrill tongue; Aunt Anne was a heavy drinker; Aunt [...]

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