Join us as author Sandra Butler shares excerpts from her two books, followed by questions and discussion about aging challenges we face as seniors. Her humorous take on these topics will inspire guests to find the humor in their own aging process.

Leaving Home at 83 is an intensely personal story yet one shared with thousands of aging women who are wondering whether to move to be closer to their children and leave their friendships behind or stay in their communities. Readers will see their questions on these pages and recognize their fears, insecurities, and uncertainties. Butler examines the often-unspoken struggle to sustain our autonomy as we age and our conflicted longing for dependency as we become more vulnerable. Both longings are embedded in the desire not to be a burden to those we love. With its sharp humor and refreshing honesty, this wry account brings a welcome and necessary perspective to the inevitable moment when we end one chapter of our lives and begin whatever comes next.

BIO: Sandra Butler was raised in a conventional 1940s suburb to become a wife and a mother. After seven years of being unsuccessful at being a proper wife while continuing to be delighted with mothering, a divorce catapulted her and her two young daughters into the turbulent l960s when so much of American life was being challenged, re-defined, and remade. Immersed in the anti-war and civil rights movements, she found her political and psychological foundation in the second wave of the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s. She began college in her mid-thirties, which led to graduate study, five books, two films, and decades of organizing and community building. Visit Sandra's website for more information.