
Getting Started In Writing Your Memoir, Book, Poem, Or Short Story
By Walter Soellner, AFT 6157R Vice President. Each one of us has a story to tell that is worth telling. The issue arises as to how to get started, and, as importantly, what to say.

By Walter Soellner, AFT 6157R Vice President. Each one of us has a story to tell that is worth telling. The issue arises as to how to get started, and, as importantly, what to say.

Most everyone I know said they wanted to write something. Most thought about writing a book or short story. For most, it just seemed too daunting.

By Marty Kendall. For many years, I’ve recited a silent daily mantra of appreciation, thanking people I have loved but who have passed away, people to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.

By Ron Levesque. Over nearly six years of handling membership for AFT 6157R, I have enjoyed re-connecting with other retirees, and meeting new ones as well as helping retirees connect with their former colleagues, mostly by email. In early April this year I received a message from Garth Norton, whom I had never met or even heard of.

Why aren’t we helping them? By Ann Aurelia López Source: Lookout Santa Cruz, November 29, 2022 Summary: Thousands of female farmworkers are regularly being assaulted,

By Patrick Butler Before The Rodda Act was passed in 1976, faculty were forbidden from forming unions, and representatives of the Academic Senate of San

Greetings everyone: Here is the latest and greatest from your fellow ‘retiree’ in Cottonwood, CA. I am surrounded by land, lizards, deer, snakes, buzzards and

By Jeanne Machado Coming from a family whose parents were public servants, I felt paying union dues was unnecessary. When I was hired as an

April 22, 2020 I’m sure you all have some interesting stories to tell about this memorable time; I know I do. I could tell you

Sometime in the summer of 2006, Barbara Hanfling, Mark Newton and I were sitting in my backyard enjoying a beer and talking about AFT6157 and