Rita Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mysteries, a seven-book series including Getting Old Is Murder, Getting Old Is The Best Revenge, and Getting Old Can Kill You.
Getting Old is Murder, a comedy series of seven, starring Gladdy Gold and her senior friends who have discovered they have a talent –they become Private Investigators. The series, filled with delightful, unforgettable characters and fun plots, is about the joys and potentials of senior life. Books 8 and 9 will be out soon.
“Gladdy Gold is a senior with a private investigation business. This series is very funny…there’s something about little old ladies running around trying to solve a mystery while forgetting what’s going on half the time.” (Comment from a reader)
Rita Lakin is a pioneer…a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood Television was exclusively male, who continued to write for TV for 25 years. She is the author of “The Only Woman In The Room,” a memoir of her life as one of the first female show runners and one of the first female television screenwriters. She has credits for 474 produced television scripts spanning 30 productions.
More local mystery authors will be added to our schedule in the near future, please stay tuned.
As a spiritual practice, writing is a powerful tool that can take you beyond the limitations of the thinking mind. When you write freely from Presence, letting go of ‘shoulds’ and expectations, the mind opens and you can access the heights and depths of Being.
In this workshop we will explore writing exercises to open to the Vastness, the Imaginal Realms, and your Intuitive Mind.
No prior writing experience is necessary.
Please, no laptops, but do bring your own writing supplies: paper or notebook, pencil or pen.
Upcoming Writing Workshops with Susanne West at the library:
Deep Writing Workshops on Monday, May 20 at 5:30 pm
Poetry & Transformation on Monday, July 22 at 5:30 pm
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2018.
Wednesday, March 7th, 5:15 – 7:45 pm in the Library Meeting Room
Poetry can be a gateway to the heights and depths of Being. In this workshop, we will work with the poetry of Rumi, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield and Rilke as inspiration for writing exercises and reflective meditations that are focused on your personal transformation.
No prior writing experience is necessary.
Please, no laptops, but do bring your own writing supplies: paper or notebook, pencil or pen.
Susanne West is a Professor of Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and a recipient of the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. She is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers: How to Help Yourself While Helping Others, and the founder of two writing programs: Words with Wings and Deep Writing. Her first collection of poetry will be coming out in 2018. More information about Susanne is available at www.susannewest.com
As a spiritual practice, writing is a powerful tool that can take you beyond the limitations of the thinking mind. When you write freely from Presence, letting go of ‘shoulds’ and expectations, the mind opens and you can access the heights and depths of Being.
In this workshop we will explore writing exercises to open to the Vastness, the Imaginal Realms, and your Intuitive Mind.
No prior writing experience is necessary.
Please, no laptops, but do bring your own writing supplies: paper or notebook, pencil or pen.
Susanne West is a Professor of Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and is a recipient of the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. She is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers: How to Help Yourself While Helping Others and the founder of a writing program called Words with Wings.
As a spiritual practice, writing is a powerful tool that can take you beyond the limitations of the thinking mind. When you write freely from Presence, letting go of ‘shoulds’ and expectations, the mind opens and you can access the heights and depths of Being.
In this workshop we will explore writing exercises to open to the Vastness, the Imaginal Realms, and your Intuitive Mind.
No prior writing experience is necessary.
Please, no laptops, but do bring your own writing supplies: paper or notebook, pencil or pen.
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2018.
Do you have what it takes to beat the room? Solve puzzles , hunt for clues, and try not to get thrown off by red herrings. Successful sleuths will be rewarded handsomely.
For tweens and teens in grades 5-8. Sign-up at the Children’s Reference Desk, or call us at 415-485-3323
Cult of the Machine features over 100 masterworks of American Precisionism by such artists as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Precisionism emerged in the 1910s and flourished in the United States during the next two decades. Artists associated with the style typically produced highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces and lucid forms to create a streamlined, “machined” aesthetic, with themes ranging from the urban and industrial to the pastoral. Reconciling realist imagery with abstracted forms, Precisionism married the influence of avant-garde European art styles such as Purism, Cubism, and Futurism with American subject matter.
The majority of Precisionist works were created during the tumultuous period between the World Wars, decades when the country’s new technologies and industries were met with multiple and contrary responses in the arts, literature, and popular culture. There was a general excitement in the United States about technology’s capacity to engender opportunity and improve the conditions of daily life. Yet these attitudes co-existed—particularly as the Great Depression took root—with widespread fears that it would supplant human labor and deaden the natural rhythms of life. Precisionist artists reflected such contradictions and complexities in their work, capturing a sense of the beauty and the coldness, the sublimity and the strangeness, of the mechanistic society in which they lived. Today, these works can hold up a mirror to our own complicated and sometimes ambivalent positions on the legacies of industrialization and technological progress as we continue to navigate our relationships with the ever-multiplying devices that surround us and shape our daily existence.
Casanova: The Seduction of Europe explores 18th-century Europe through the eyes of one of its most colorful characters, Giacomo Casanova (Italian, 1725–1798). Renowned today as a seducer and an adventurer, Casanova was known to his contemporaries as a charming and witty conversationalist, an expert on many topics, and an international man of letters. He was also a gambler, a spy, and one of history’s greatest travelers.
The exhibition, at the Legion of Honor from February 10, 2018 – May 28, 2018, features approximately 90 works—including paintings by Canaletto, Pietro Longhi, William Hogarth, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and François Boucher; sculptures by Jean-Antoine Houdon; works on paper by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; period furnishings, delicate porcelains, silver, and period costumes. Casanova will bring the famed author’s world to life. Of special note are three tableaux, illustrating, respectively, a visit to a convent in Venice, a morning toilette in Paris, and a dissipated night of cards in London—scenes composed of mannequins in 18th-century costumes amid period furniture. Thematic threads running through the exhibition include travel; courtship and seduction; theater and identity; and the pleasures of dining.
A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls
A Matter of Balance is an 8-week structured group intervention that emphasizes practical strategies to reduce fear of falling and increase activity levels.
Friday, January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Learn Fall Prevention Tips!
Falls are a serious concern. Marin General Hospital, in collaboration with A Matter of Balance, the award-winning fall prevention program for senior adults, is offering a free eight session course for seniors whose fear of falling limits their social and physical activity.
Participants will be taught:
Safe and simple exercises to promote strength, flexibility, and balance
Problem solving strategies to address habits and behaviors
Lifestyle changes to promote safety
Ways to create a safer home environment…and more!
Each of the eight sessions is two hours. Class size is limited to 15 participants.
Please commit to attending all eight sessions and register by calling the library reference desk at 415-485-3321
Many are intimidated at the thought of doing their own pruning. Come learn the basic principles that will afford you the confidence to prune anything in your garden from roses to redwoods.
Gary Bartl, a UC Marin Master Gardener since 2001, has over 25-years of gardening experience. Trained in counseling psychology, Gary, known as an ‘edu-tainer’, has combined his passion for gardening, particularly succulents, with his professional work with severely emotionally disturbed youth. Gary was lead designer in the development of the succulent garden at the Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael that is now managed and maintained by UC Marin Master Gardeners.
Rita Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mysteries, a seven-book series including Getting Old Is Murder, Getting Old Is The Best Revenge, and Getting Old Can Kill You.
Do you have what it takes to beat the room? Solve puzzles , hunt for clues, and try not to get thrown off by red herrings. Successful sleuths will be rewarded handsomely.
Docent Speaker: Rita Dunlay
A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls