By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2001, when Barbara Young signed up for a nanny training class in New York City, she didn’t realize how it would set her on the path for her encore career. She simply thought taking a certificate program could help her acquire extra skills, like CPR. She took pride...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Sally Bingham, a homemaker turned Episcopal priest, developed a new strategy to combat global warming: organize churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples and mosques to buy “green” electricity generated by wind and solar power, to reduce energy consumption in...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Every Wednesday afternoon since 2005, through the muggy Washington summers, wounded soldiers cast fly fishing lines over the green grass in front of the Walter Reed National Medical Center. Trying to catch lawn trout may seem quixotic, but practicing the rhythmic...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When he was 13, Michael Clarkson’s mother was arrested, and he was sent from Arizona to Philadelphia to live with other family. No surprise, Clarkson began having a tough time in school and had no plans for his future. Barbara Chandler Allen helped change all that....
