I am pleased to feature Howard Marks as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. After graduating from the University of Illinois-Chicago (and serving as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper) he worked at the Chicago Today and the Chicago Tribune and received a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. Semi-retired in Washington, D.C. now, […]

I have a confession to make. For the past couple of years, I’ve been involved in a drug trade. I trade insulin. It all started in 2019. Well, I take that back. It all started in 1966, when I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes (now referred to as Type 1 diabetes). I’ve been injecting insulin […]

I am pleased to feature author Regan Burke as our Saturdays withSeniors guest blogger today. News stories this month inspired me to assign “Transition Team” to her writing class this past week. “Focus on a significant change in your life,” I told them. “Who helped you through?” The long-awaited publication of Regan’s memoir In That […]

I am pleased to feature Bindy Bitterman as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Bindy owned and managed Eureka, an amazing and eclectic little shop in Evanston, Illinois until 2015, when she retired at age 84. She moved to The Admiral at the Lake after that, and is a writer in the memoir class […]

Over the years, many writers in the memoir classes I lead have self-published their work. Until now, only two had found independent publishers: Hanna Bratman’s collection What’s In My Head was published by Blue Marlin Publications in 2011, and Anna Perlberg’s The House in Prague was published by Golden Alley Press in 2007 And now […]