I am pleased to introduce Gretchen McCann as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. New to Chicago, Gretchen joined the Thursday memoir class last summer and continues writing — and reading — essays while we meet via Zoom. Born in New England, Gretchen was raised in California, graduated from Berkeley and met her husband, […]

I am pleased to introduce Ann Parrilli as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. Ann joined our “Me, Myself and I” class at the Chicago Cultural Center this past year and continues writing — and reading — essays while that class meets via Zoom. Born and raised in Chicago, Ann moved to San Francisco […]

Think people “of a certain age” are not keeping up with current technology? Think again. For weeks now, two of the memoir classes I lead have been running Zoom memoir classes on their own, and now two others — the ones I lead for The Village Chicago — are combining forces to explore if a […]

I am pleased to introduce José DiMauro as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. Born in Argentina, José graduated from medical school at Univ De Buenos Aires and left home in 1963 to start his medical career at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital., From there he became a board certified pathologist at University of Illinois in […]

If you’ve followed this Safe & Sound blog for a while, you know who Wanda Bridgeforth is: she’s witty, she’s talented, she’s 98 years old, she’s been attending the memoir-writing class I lead in downtown Chicago for over a decade now, and guess what? She’s in the news again. This time, it’s the front page! […]