In this communal setting, we will ask what are the stories we want to tell of our experience and begin telling them. Writing about aging is of course writing about time; how much do we get and what shall we do with it.

• Where are we in the stream of time and what anchors us, relationships, beliefs, purpose?
• What are our challenges and can we write about them in compelling, artful ways?

Through in-class exercises and prompts, we will explore our own truths, quirky, funny, dark, challenging, and perhaps unresolved.

Through readings of what others have written and discussion we will explore many aspects of growing older, what our culture tells us, feelings and attitudes, physical and mental health, the role of humor, relationships and loneliness, finding purpose, and even death, with the goal of producing essays that can be workshopped, revised, and shared.