WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Do We Need a People’s Party?

I had hoped that Troy Jackson, with a long history in labor—logger, union leader—and in local government, and who began his campaign speaking for Mainers would bring progressive changes.  Yet his campaign to unseat the aging and [...]

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It’s Not Me, It’s Us

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN Life-changing wisdom can come to us by surprise. I worked with the novelist and New Yorker editor Writer William Maxwell in his last decade.  After he had died, I read that he had brought his fiancée Emmy to meet his father in 1945.  His father, a somber man, was delighted, and advised his son, “If you [...]

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