Last night, a dear friend told me about her mother-in-law’s desperate sadness at her increasing frailties. 87, mind sharp and focused, her body nonetheless betrays her. She cannot sleep at [...]

95 year old women form their own special strata in the Annals of the Indomitable. Not many of us make it to this level. Those who do command respect and warrant further study: How do they do it? [...]

Here’s what we believe: if you plan for the most vulnerable, the world works better for everyone. Organize a busy street so a deaf child with a physical disability can cross it safely and [...]

When I was expecting my children, I saw pregnant women everywhere. It felt like an epidemic – where had they all been hiding till now? Later, while breastfeeding, I would spot other women [...]

I keep getting invited to weddings. Voluntary organisations are famous for first jobs and volunteer opportunities, which is to say we have a lot of young people around all the time. Young people [...]

Last week we had our best-ever all-staff meeting. I’m not sure why it took us so long to understand that there’s a good way to have meetings and there is a bad way. Bad: Leave the [...]

“Children First” is a truism – one of those phrases we all believe in and think we actually practice. Coupled with women (as in “Women and Children First”) it was [...]

“When you’re blind, you just can’t assume anything,” he said. “But the problem is you get a picture in your mind, and if you get it wrong, you just live inside the mistake.” I wrote a post a few [...]