By Gary Hume | Apr 5, 2016
It was 1987 and I was a mother of two and a pastor’s wife living in my newly-adopted home - Queens, New York! As a Chinese-American more comfortable speaking my native tongue than English, I watched a lot of American TV. I listened to a program that said women...
By Gary Hume | Apr 5, 2016
My life really began after 50. I was a hard-core trial lawyer for 22 years. Through a gradual inner awakening, I realized that my calling was not in the courtroom. As a result, in 2000, exactly two weeks after my 50th birthday, I left a successful trial practice in a...
By Gary Hume | Mar 29, 2016
I’m an obstetrician and gynecologist in San Francisco and, at 66, I’m still delivering babies. But my “encore” project started when I was elected president of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association. One of my first steps was to...
By Gary Hume | Mar 29, 2016
Sunflower County sounds like a happy place. But the rural Mississippi Delta county is one of the poorest in the nation. An alarming 54 percent of children live in poverty, and the high school graduation rate is just 59 percent. When I moved back there in 2009 after a...
