RECALLING AND RECORDING CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Are there memories and moments in your life that you wish you could capture in words that allow family members and others to share them with you? All of us have experiences that touch and change us. Remembering and recording childhood memories can be a deeply nourishing act, and can help us to see our lives with a new perspective. This 4 week workshop will provide a writing community to support and challenge us as we discover meaning in the memories we commit to paper, whether as essays, stories or poems. Each week we will work with writing exercises, share our writing with each other and an opportunity to give and receive feedback. No writing experience is necessary, only the desire to share your experiences through the written word.  Participants will be expected to spend time writing between classes.

Carol LaChance, M.Ed., works at Chester Academy, where she runs a program for gifted and talented students in language arts and math. She is an educational consultant for the literacy program, Picturing Writing, developed at the University of New Hampshire, and also teaches in the Manchester schools. Carol has taught adult classes, workshops and retreats throughout New England. She is the author of The Way of the Mother: The Lost Journey of the Feminine, and is presently working on a young adult novel. She has recently written a childhood memoirs entitled In My Father’s House and Breakfast in Bed. Carol has also written articles for magazines and contributed several introductions to books published by her husband, Albert. They live in New Boston.

Date:    February 8, 15, March 1, 8  (Tuesday Evenings)

Time:    7:00 - 8:30

Fee :    $75 for the 4 week session

Class Size Limit:    10 participants