A couple of vignettes from 2020: Saturday we escaped our concrete jungle in downtown Chicago for the verdant back yard of friends in suburban Glen Ellyn. Well, we ended up inside because of rain, but the thought was good. (FYI, we all were safe. Apart from the continuing good signs about Beth’s and my likely […]

I am pleased to introduce Anu Agrawal as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Anu immigrated to America from India in 1969 and is a writer in the “Me, Myself and I” memoir class that is meeting via Zoom now. Her husband Pawan sat in for a while when the class was meeting at […]

Remember life in January? That’s when I spent three weeks in New Jersey at The Seeing Eye with 20-plus other blind people, all of us training with new Seeing Eye dogs . What a stroke of luck to have been matched with one-year-old black Lab Luna then. She’s the perfect dog for me, and I […]

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 […]

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 […]