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 & […]

What’s it like to be a recent college graduate who is looking for work and trying new adventures and then wham, a pandemic hits? Guest blogger Ali Krage is in that predicament and has generously agreed to write a post describing what that feels like. You might remember Ali from a post she wrote for […]

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! […]

 Every night at 8 pm, our neighborhood has a social distancing party. Saturday’s was an especially good party–it was Mike’s first. Two weeks ago today Mike was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with the COVID 19 virus. Here are some things that happened at home while he was away: When I let […]

A reporter from a magazine called Rebellious Magazine for Women contacted me last month for a few quotes about this year’s census. Rebellious Woman? Moi? What they were looking for were quotes about how important it is that people with disabilities fill out the forms and be counted in this year’s 2020 Census. That story, […]