I am pleased to have Maggy Fouché as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. The prompt for this past week was “Witness” and Maggy’s essay shows she’s been keeping her eye on a lot lately! by Maggy Fouché My friend Ted and I have been regularly emailing each other about amazing corporate social changes. […]

Happy Immunity Day! It’s been 14 days since Mike and I got our second Pfizer vaccine, and I’m celebrating by leading a memoir-writing class in person this afternoon. The last memoir-writing class I taught in person met 13 months ago. It is downright amazing how quickly we all adjusted to using Zoom and meeting online. […]

A 1-1/2 minute clip from Carol’s son Steven’s labor of love. I am pleased to introduce Carol Rosofsky as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. A consultant at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Carol was once married to Chicago artist Seymour Rosofsky, who was part of a cluster of returning soldiers dubbed the “Monster Roster” […]

Over the years, many writers in the memoir classes I lead have self-published their work. Until now, only three had found independent publishers: Hanna Bratman’s collection What’s In My Head was published by Blue Marlin Publications in 2011 Anna Perlberg’s The House in Prague was published by Golden Alley Press in 2016 Regan Burke’s long-awaited […]

I am pleased to introduce Lola Hotchkis as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Lola’s cousin Nancy is a friend of mine and describes Lola as “the writer in the family.” Retired after a successful career in business, Lola lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and joined our class once I started […]