As We Age: A Conversation

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The conversation that unfolds in the pages of As We Age, beyond personal reflections on two women’s lives, offers an invitation to readers to reflect on their own aging—what questions and challenges arise in the final season of life, and what unexpected pleasures. It ranges widely among memories of learning moments, passages from beloved books, observations about shifting friendships and family relationships, and speculations about death, dying, and what lies beyond that portal.
The conversation that unfolds in the pages of As We Age, beyond personal reflections on two women’s lives, offers an invitation to readers to reflect on their own aging—what questions and challenges arise in the final season of life, and what unexpected pleasures. It ranges widely among memories ...

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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is a former professor of English and Fellow of the Gaede Institute at Westmont College. She teaches at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Her most recent books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (2009) and The Color of Light (2007). Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Professor Emerita, Penn State College of Medicine, where she served as Professor of Humanities and Director of the Drs. Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. She is the author of several books, including Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography and A Small, Good Thing: Stories about Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them. Her numerous published articles concern a wide range of topics, including studies of the relevance of humanistic medicine to Dante's Divine Comedy, Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, Donne's Devotions, and Chretien de Troyes' Yvain. Hawkins lives in Philadelphia.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is a former professor of English and Fellow of the Gaede Institute at Westmont College. She teaches at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Her most recent books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (2009) and The Color of Light (2007). Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Professor E...

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