The Write Age

Young boy at the farm with cows

A couple of weeks ago I started attending a writers’ workshop. Why? Well for years I’ve been writing—creative writing. I gave up on the academic writing at age 33 and began writing curriculum resources, first my own resources for programs I planned and then for a publisher. Eventually I decided I wanted to write a memoir about a kid whose grandparents lived on a farm that he grew to love. He didn’t want to live on it or to farm it. He just loved it for how it inspired his imagination—that and for the stories his mom, grandma, and grandpa told him about the place. 

“The Write Age” eight-week workshop is the first actual course I have taken since Written Communications 101 and 102. It is the first creative writing course I have ever signed up for. In it I hope to learn from our leaders and other participants the things that will enable me to write what I have wanted to write for nearly thirty years.

Kids watching swallows swoop over the barnyard

“The Write Age” is a cooperative program of the Denver Parks and Recreation Division, The Light House (a Denver writing school), and the Denver Council on Ageing. I’m pleased to be a part of this new workshop.


Denver, 2016