Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/19/19: Holiday Idea – Read Licenses

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

First off, Happy Holidays, whichever ones you celebrate. As part of the holidays, over the next week or so, lots of new digital gizmos will be opened in houses across the land. To use most of them, the new user will have to click to agree to a license before the device can be used. Ever read one of those licenses from top to bottom? Might be – no, absolutely would be – a very good idea. But in case you don’t choose to, cartoonist Stephen Pastis depicted one in cartoon form that isn’t too far from the truth. Enjoy (well…).

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All About Aging 12/18/19: Maine Coalition on Aging, hospice volunteers & Evensong

Producer/Host: Peg Cruikshank
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Key Discussion Points:
MCOA deals with 95 programs and agencies
Evensong sings in hospitals as well as homes
Music is a great comfort to the dying and their families

Guests:
Jess Mauer Executive director MCOA
Sue Davis, retired hospice nurse and long-time hospice volunteer
Cookie Horner, coordinator of Evensong

About the host:
Peg Cruikshank, host of “All About “All About Aging” received an MA in gerontology from San Francisco State University. After moving to Maine she taught courses on women’s aging at the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine. Her book Learning to be Old: gender, culture and aging was named one of the best books on human rights in 2004 by the Myers Center for Human Rights in Boston. Cruikshank also edited an anthology of literary works on aging titled Fierce with Reality. She lives in Corea.

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