I am pleased to feature Annelore Chapin as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Born and raised in post-war Germany, Annelore met her American husband Roy there and left for the U.S. at age 20. The couple settled in Chicago for their retirement, and Annelore has been a writer in the Me, Myself & […]

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 Andrea Kelton as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. A retired educator, Andrea has been in the “Me, Myself and I” memoir class at the Chicago Cultural Center for 15 years (another longtime writer in Andrea’s class, Sharon Kramer, has generously volunteered to lead that class via Zoom now). […]

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 […]

I am pleased to introduce Dr. Jody Ashenhurst as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Dr. Ashenhurst grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and attended medical school at University of Illinois at Chicago. She trained in Internal Medicine at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital under renowned physician Dr. Quentin Young and credits him for […]