Ingrid Bloom American music and fashions made me aspire to sail over to the US from Germany. I was twenty. After working at Leitz in New York, at a bank in San Francisco and later graduating from a local college, I ventured forth to my greatest challenge, teaching at high school for thirty-one years and …
Isabel Boardman – Wisdom Goddess Project Participant
Isabel Boardman Isabel Boardman was a Classical singer who performed with her husband Roger Boardman, pianist, in the New York area as well as abroad in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria. They both taught at New York University where they met; he as the head of the Piano Department and she in her capacity as the …
Dr. Dee Unterbach – Wisdom Goddess Project Participant
Dr. Dee Unterbach How prescient of Suzanne Sheridan to create a photo essay on older women. This project comes at a point in our lives when one of our DEVELOPMENTAL tasks is LIFE REVIEW, which Bernice Newgarten labeled young-old (65-74), middle-old (75-84) and old-old. As a kid, my passion and talent was playing sports. I …
Marjolijn De Jager Wisdom Goddess Project Participant
Marjolijn de Jager Marjolijn was born in 1936 on Borneo, Indonesia—then still a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East-Indies—where her father was a young engineer with Royal Dutch Oil (Shell). After brief travels to the Netherlands and the USA, the family returned to Java in late 1941. The Japanese invaded the country in March 1942 …
Charlene Chiang Hillman – Wisdom Goddess Participant
Charlene Chiang Hillman is a psychotherapist in private practice with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders; developmental trauma and PTSD; and somatic/energy techniques. Until September of this year, she was also the Director of Social Services for the town of Weston, CT. Charlene is a first- generation Chinese-America born to Ying Ming Wang Chiang, daughter of …