Barbara Godin is a graduate of Athabasca University. She writes the “”Dear Barb” and the “Women of Interest” columns. As well, Barb has written many personal interest stories and enjoys connecting with others through her writing. She has been writing for The Voice since 2003.
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Dear Barb: My husband and I have been married five years and have two children. We get along pretty well, but lately I’ve been feeling like my husband doesn’t really care about me or the kids. When he is home he watches TV or plays video games. The kids often ask him to do things… Read more »
Dear Barb: My parents divorced quite a few years ago and my dad remarried. I have lived with both at various times and am close to each. My stepmother and I get along okay, for the most part. She hasn’t really said too much until recently. My dad and I had an argument about something,… Read more »
Esther Lederberg was born December 18, 1922, in Bronx, New York, and died November 1, 2006, in Stanford, California. She was an American microbiologist who led the way in bacterial genetics. Lederberg is best known for her collaboration with her first husband who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on how… Read more »
Dear Barb: My father and I were always close and spent a lot of time together. Two years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. It was devastating for the whole family. My mom is having a hard time coping and considering putting my dad into a nursing home. My sister and I are coping… Read more »
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born July 19, 1921, in New York City and died May 30, 2011, in the Bronx, New York. Yalow was a medical physicist who, along with Andrew Schally and Roger Guillemin, won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for a technique known as radioimmunoassay (RIA). RIA is a tracing… Read more »
Rita Levi-Montalcini was born April 22, 1909, in Turin, Italy, and died December 30, 2012, in Rome Italy. In 1986, Levi-Montalcini won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with colleague Stanley Cohen, for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). In 1936 she graduated of the University of Turin, but her academic… Read more »
Dear Barb: I just graduated high school and I’m not sure what I want to do next. My parents are supportive of whatever my choice is. Most of my friends are going to college or university, but I’m not sure which program I want to go into. I don’t want to waste my money on… Read more »
Dr. Mary Claire King, an American Human geneticist, was born February 7, 1946, in Illinois, United States. King is recognized for identifying the genes responsible for certain types of breast cancer, she also was able to demonstrate that humans and chimpanzees are 99% genetically identical. In 1973, she received her doctorate in genetics from the… Read more »
Dear Barb: I have been invited to a celebration of life for the husband of a very good friend of mine. Her husband is in the final stages of cancer and they decided to go ahead with this in place of a funeral. I don’t know how I feel about it. I have heard of… Read more »
Katherine Johnson was born August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA. She is an African-American physicist and mathematician who began working at NASA in 1953 and remained there until her retirement in 1986. Johnson calculated the trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many early NASA missions, including those of… Read more »