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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Margaret Kimberley1

The New Anti-War Elder Activists

Protests against the genocide in Gaza have become intergenerational on an unprecedented scale. When I marched against the war in Vietnam, a grey-haired protester was a rare sighting.  Many elders at the time shared the view of my then 70-something neighbor who commented,  “I’ve done my part. It’s up to the younger generation now.” [...]

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