Old Age & Young Hearts

Judy Bebelaar taught in San Francisco public schools for 37 years. Her students won many writing awards; she won awards for her teaching as well. Her prize-winning poetry has been published widely in magazines and anthologies including The Widows’ Handbook (foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Kent State University Press). Her chapbook, Walking Across the Pacific, was published by Finishing Line Press, 2014. And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown (2018), written with fellow teacher Ron Cabral, has won ten awards and honors. Greta Broda grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Toronto. She lived off the grid in the back woods of northern California with her husband, Robert. She taught grade school for thirty years. Now a widow, she is retired and has returned to Wisconsin. Perissa Busick grew up in New York City. She spent magical summers in a cabin in New Jersey, living without electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. It wa