Growing Bolder Community

Here's a link to an interview I did by email recently with Victor David Giron of Curbside Splendor Publishing in Chicago. http://curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/readings/interview-mary-t.-wagner If you get all the way to the bottom, you'll find a very old photo of a very small "me" as a little girl sitting on a park bench with my father in Chicago's Humboldt Park.Victor is a wonderful template...

I'm in the Volunteer house where I'll be living for the next year, and today starts a week-long Orientation! I can't tell you how excited I am, and what a blessing this has been/will be. I'm looking at this new beginning as sort of a personal retreat, a year of reflection, growth and emerging. Being at CAP gives me so many opportunities, not only to serve, but to break the patterns that I've...

My earlier article talked of depression from a "normal" person's perspective (whatever "normal" is). I would like to say that I have attempted effective stragies and not so effective strategies during this severe depression. The one effective strategy I am presently pursuing is professional counseling. (have for two plus years) I must say that this strategy is a PROCESS.......and can be a...

The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL), which serves as the bridge between people 55 and older and the opportunities that enable them to continue in productive activities, today described “The 3 Important Ways to Defuse the Ticking Time Bomb of our Aging Workforce”. With 77 million people in the United States 55 and older, we are at a tipping point: we can either watch them sit on...