To honor what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday yesterday, I asked writers in my memoir classes to choose a Beatles song title and use that as the title of their 500-word memoir.  A few writers came back with essays about being “back in the USSR,” one wrote about how they “should have known better, […]

I am pleased to introduce Karen Fontaine as our Saturdays with Seniors guess blogger today. A Professor emeritus in the College of Nursing and Psychiatric Nursing at Purdue University Northwest, Karen has three children and three grandchildren. ”I am fortunate to be part of a racially diverse family,” she says. Her son Jean-Marc is a […]

In his guest post last week, Michael Graff said that when the idea of teaching memoir via Zoom first came up, “Beth was skeptical.” A very generous description there. Had I been editing his rough draft, it’d look like this : Beth was skepticalstubborn. Even before COVID, many people were suggesting I offer online courses […]

Back in march I wrote a blog post explaining why online memoir-writing classes wouldn’t work for me. Five months later, I’m leading three classes a week via Zoom. What happened? I learned to accept help from writers who were offering to help make it work. Sharon kindly volunteered to lead the Wednesday “Me, Myself & […]

I am pleased to feature Sharon Kramer as a guest blogger for “Saturdays with Seniors” today. Sharon is a graduate of the online Beth Finke Memoir Teacher MasterClass, and after I was put on furlough, she generously volunteered to start (and lead) the Wednesday “Me, Myself and I” memoir-writing class for her fellow writers on […]