Enjoy free online lectures from the comfort of your home. We've been enlightened and entertained in the past by authors, artists, public officials, historians and more. Even some LLC members with great stories to tell. Admission is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
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"LLC is greatly inexpensive and has a wonderful variety of courses. I enjoy being exposed to and stimulated by subjects about which I previously only had limited knowledge.”
Susan Van Horne, Swansea, MA
Sex After Sixty: Older and Wiser
Jessi Rowe, LCSW-C
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
4-5 PM
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Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this very frank, open, and empowering lecture.
Isn’t it time to talk openly about intimacy and sexuality as we get older? Physical, cognitive, and emotional changes may affect the way we are able to be sexual. However, those changes need not force us to give up sexual and intimate experience and expression. Jessi Rowe, LCSW-C, will discuss some of the issues facing those of us who are single, in new relationships, and in longstanding relationships. She will also address the particular challenges when dementia is present.
Let’s break down barriers and foster a community where intimacy is celebrated at any age.
Jessi Rowe, LCSW-C, has over 40 years of experience working with older adults and their families in private care management, psychotherapy, social services, hospice, and concierge health advising. Jessi was an instructor with the Johns Hopkins University Certificate on Aging program and at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, teaching graduate students specializing in the field of aging. Jessi is a 2015 recipient of the Maryland Gerontological Association Individual Achievement Award.
The Truth About Diets: Finding Long-Term Weight Management
Mary M. Flynn, PhD, RD, LDN
Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinical), Brown University
Research Dietitian, The Miriam Hospital
Monday, February 10, 2025
4-5pm
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You can lose weight with many different diets, but which ones truly lead to lasting results? Mary M. Flynn, PhD, RD, LDN, will explore popular weight loss diets, discussing the pros and cons of each, how to spot a fad diet, and which foods promote healthy weight loss and reduce the risk of chronic diseases – just in time to shed some of the extra pounds we may put on during the winter.
Join us and bring all your questions!
Mary M. Flynn, PhD, RD, LDN, is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinical) at Brown University and a Research Dietitian at The Miriam Hospital, where she has worked since 1984. She is the outpatient Dietitian at TMH for oncology, taught nutrition at Brown University, and has lectured in the medical school on nutrition topics since 1998. Her main research interest is how food can be used as medicine and her main food of interest is extra virgin olive oil, which she has been researching.
Thank you to our previous speakers:
Linda Kushner, Author
The Fight That Saved the Libraries: A True Rhode Island Story
Presented October 28, 2024
Secretary of State Gregg Amore
Election Integrity for 2024
Presented October 23, 2024
Linda Bloom, LCSW and Charlie Bloom, MSW, Relationship Counselors/Authors
Secrets to the Best Relationships
Presented September 24, 2024
John Kostrzewa, Writer of the Walking Rhode Island column for The Providence Journal
Fall Hikes - Walking Rhode Island
Presented September 16, 2024
Ben Nacar, Pianist and Composer
The Evolution of the Cadenza: Lecture and Live Piano Recital
Presented September 12, 2024
Stephen Kaplan and Marilyn Kaplan
Experiencing Israel at War: A Recent Visit to Israel
Presented May 20, 2024
Joe Petteruti
Author, A Night She’d Remember: My Grandmother's Experience on the Titanic
Presented May 9, 2024
Steve Kidd
Director and Resident Actor, Gamm Theatre
Theatre Arts Teacher, Moses Brown School
Sigh/Omelas: A live one man show
Presented April 29, 2024
Andrew Starcevic
Peace Corps Regional Recruiter – RI, MA, CT
Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection Serving in Namibia
Presented April 17, 2024
Charles Clarkson, PhD
Director of Avian Research, Audubon Society of Rhode Island
What Audubon is Doing to Protect Birds
Presented April 4, 2024
David N. Cicilline
President and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation
Former Rhode Island Congressman
Presented March 27, 2024
Marjorie Turner Hollman
Author, Do You Want to Take an Easy Walk?
Presented March 20, 2024
Dr. David Weed
Coordinator, Sowams Heritage Area Project
Creating a New National Heritage Area in East Bay, RI and nearby Massachusetts
Presented February 21, 2024
Oleksandr (Alexander) Kreshchuk
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Music Department, Artist in Residence
Ukraine: Known and Unknown
Presented February 6, 2024
Rick Beyer
Co-Author, The Ghost Army of World War II (a NYT Bestseller)
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Presented January 24, 2024
Maria DeCarvalho
Azulejos: Memories in Blue and White
Presented November 21, 2023