Yamini Ranjan

Yamini  00:15 Hello and welcome to Women of Wayland, the podcast. This is your host Yamini. I am going to talk about a very interesting topic today and I’m sure you would relate to it. When I moved to Boston from Toronto, the first thing I noticed were the runners. They were everywhere. Like wherever I […]

Yamini  00:14 They say it takes a community to raise a child with or without disabilities. We all have strengths and challenges every one of us. Yet we are not inclusive of children of special needs, or their parents as a society. To a large extent things are changing, yes. `But we still have to address

Yamini  00:16 In New England, we love our gardens, especially because we have long winters. Right after the long, harsh winter spring cleaning is on our minds. We start with landscaping our yards, sowing the seeds for plants, bringing in beautiful flowers that mostly survive until the fall. Many of us also love a handy healthy

Yamini  00:34 Parenthood can come in different flavors. It’s customized to suit your needs when you have your own or you adopt or host or foster. In other words, Parenthood is unique for biological parents adopted parents, foster parents, host parents, and so on and so forth. But the one thing they all depend on

Last summer, when I was climbing the hills of the Portuguese village of marvel, in 100 degrees Fahrenheit, I met an old lady. She must have been in her 80s. In the sweltering heat, she’d found a little shade, and she sat there with small Portuguese dolls made out of cloth. Remind me of the

Questions? why women? Why this neighborhood? Why this podcast at all? We are often asked what we do where we work, it is assumed that answer will be all about our professional work. But are we not so much more? It’s the life we have lived experiences we’ve had and the stories we will tell.