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 […]

I am pleased to introduce Hank Bliss as our featured Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. I’d intended to wait until November to publish the essay he wrote for my “When I Ceased to be a Child” prompt, but after the Democratic National Convention this past week I decided now is the time. by Hank […]

I am pleased to introduce Veronica Cook as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. A former nun, Veronica worked at the Northern Trust Bank for years before retirement. Happily married and a longtime resident of Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, she says one of her most valued achievements was leading a task force to successfully […]

Disclaimer: Today’s Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger, Bridget Hayman, is not a senior. One of the Zoom memoir-writing classes I lead on Thursday afternoons is open to writers of all ages. Bridget is the Director of Communications at Access Living (a leading force in Chicago’s disability advocacy community) and is using her lunch and taking […]