I am pleased to introduce Nancy O’Shea as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. The former Public Relations Director for Chicago’s Field Museum, Nancy also edited the museum’s membership magazine. Now retired, she enjoys taking classes in memoir writing. Lucky for us: we all enjoy hearing her read her essays out loud in class, […]

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 Barbara Hayler as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. Born and raised in California, Barbara moved to Springfield, Illinois in her forties to accept a position as Professor of Criminal Justice at University of Illinois-Springfield. She moved to Admiral at the Lake in Chicago when she retired, and is […]

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 […]

All five of the memoir-writing classes I lead in Chicago are cancelled while we shelter in place, but a number of students are braving the world of technology to continue writing — and meeting — on their own. writers in Wanda’s “Me, Myself and I” class enjoy the zoom memoir class they put together so […]