In early July, a week after our retirement party, my husband Jim and I were taking our regular hike in the coastal woods of Connecticut when I had to slow down. I felt warm and fatigued. A heat wave thickened the air, and I thought, I guess I can't take [...]

Photo Caption: Arnela Ten Meer, Amanda Kemp, Sonja Ahuja and Janet Luongo at the Unitarian Church in Westport, 2017. A professional, dignified, wealthy and elderly Black friend revealed that when she entered an upscale shop, clerks followed her. Sonja Ahuja had decades of experience building diversity in corporations and she volunteered [...]