I am pleased to introduce Jane Gallagher as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. A writer in Wanda’s Wednesday “Me, Myself and I” class, Jane is a retired psychiatric nurse, and until the pandemic, she volunteered at O’Hare, assisting passengers getting around the airport. The tales she shares with us in class of growing […]

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 […]

Retired educator Janie Isaackson is in the “Me, Myself and I” memoir class I lead at the Chicago Cultural Center, and she generously agreed to share this list of favorite books as she and her fellow memoir writers shelter at home. Notice how it reads as part book list, and part memoir: by Janie IsacksonMy […]

It has come to my attention that the post I Published yesterday about teaching memoir-writing classes was somewhat garbled at the end – sorry about that! Those of you who missed the stunning ending can read it in its entirety below, and as a bonus to this version, I am including a piece of writing […]

Over the 15-plus years I’ve been leading memoir classes in Chicago many many people have suggested I offer an online course as well. “You’d get people from all over the country,” they say. “You could charge a lot, and you wouldn’t even have to leave home.”Not leave home? Being with my writers is what I […]