WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Finding Our Footing

We are living in a time when uncertainty has given way to anxiety, inhabiting our lives day and night. We wake up wondering what fresh assault will come next:  whether the midterms will reject entrenched Republicans; whether Trump [...]

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This Isn’t Exactly What We Had Planned*

* Carly Simon, “Legend in Your Own Time” GUEST POST by ANNE PENWAY This was not supposed to happen. Not when it did. I expected my midlife would include caregiving for my parents. And it did. I was the first responder to gradually escalating parental health crises for sixteen years. I expected to outlive my husband. Most women do.  The [...]

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