Course Description

Instructor: Susan Soper

Childhood memories seem to be the most impactful and enduring: parents, siblings, pets, grandparents; trips, moves, school, friends (real and imagined), success, bumps in the road, discipline, affection, ambitions, losses (things and people), realities. Smells, sights, and colors bring back lasting emotions and memories, as well as books, TV and movies, songs, etc. This class will explore childhood in a variety of ways--from postcards to narrative pieces. If you're thinking of leaving your stories for children and grands, this could be helpful.

Bio: Susan is a life-long writer, editor and now instructor. She began her career at Newsday in Washington DC and New York before returning to her hometown, Atlatna, where she worked briefly for CNN and for 20 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitutioin as a senior editor. For more than 10 years, she has taught Olli classes in obituary writing (www.Obitkit.com), memoir writing, random writing and is intensely interested in people's stories and helping to get them out. She lives in Biuckhead with her husband, Bo Holland, and their puppy, Pappy.