WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Looking for Home

Lately I have been thinking about the meaning of home. Not the wonderful Victorian space I have lived in for almost 14 years; my neighborhood of tree-lined streets; the welcoming market; the Maine coastline that still takes my breath [...]

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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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Where Do We Go From Here?

Many of us are struggling with this question as we try to process last week’s heinous hate crimes where a Trump disciple mailed pipe bombs to many of Trump’s sworn enemies; where a white racist killed two elderly African Americans in cold blood in a Kentucky market; where 11 mostly elderly men and women were murdered at Pittsburgh’s [...]

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