Summer 2021

 Checkology with Peggy Palmiter Our technology class this session will be just a bit different.  "The News Literacy Project" is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, that provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants […]

We are always glad to have Rose Haven to lead our amazing line dancers. This session we will have 8 weeks of great dancing. The best part is you dance in the privacy of your own home so nobody needs to know how well you dance. Plus Rose provide step sheets and video examples of […]

 Our own Tina Rasheed will again be leading us in Tai Chi. Tina has a 26-year career as a public health researcher at the Morehouse School of Medicine and has applied her mission as a martial artist to bridge the health disparity gap by teaching self-applied health enhancement techniques such as Qigong and Tai Chi […]

Lyda Phillips was with us last summer and we all enjoyed her birding discussions.  Lyda plans to talk about her new environment, now that she lives in New Mexico, how we can watch our humming birds, and what kinds of plants attract different kinds of birds.  Tune in and see what you can learn about […]

The Hidden Brain Series:  We will be using material from the podcast “The Hidden Brain”  by Shankar Vedantam.  Participants will listen to a podcast episode prior to class and then we will have a guest speaker who will share some practical ways that phenomenon is experienced in the real world. July 8th we will be discussing the Podcast Episode […]

Try some Chair Yoga!   Susan Hills, Lifespan’s own bookkeeper is also a certified yoga instructor.  She offered to give us taste of a chair yoga class so you could all try something a little different. Chair yoga is a great way for older adults who may struggle with balance and flexibility to get the health […]

  Come and enjoy a performance from The Atlanta Theatre to Go!  We are so happy they are able to join us for our first session. The show is a compilation of two plays, Un Calembour (a play on words) written by Steven D. Miller, and RSVP, written by Donna Warfield. Un Calembour is a hilarious scene about a couple […]

      We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Zentangle.  I think the best part is our own amazement at what we can create.  It is both a truly Zen experience and a wonderful feeling of accomplishment.  Come and see what you think. If you join our Zentangle class for the first time, you will want some […]

Grace Hawthorne will be with us at Lifespan Summer Session on July 8th at 1:30 pm for our first Author Talk. (Remember we have Atlanta Theater to Go on July 1st). She will be discussing her new book, Lost River. Everybody in Lost River has a story of survival, even the dogs. There are big […]

Milam Propst will be with us at Lifespan Summer Session on July 12th at 1:30 pm for the Author Talk Series. Milam will be discussing her wonderful books, telling her stories, and answering your questions. You can visit her website HERE or read a bit about her below. From her bio: "Author of ten books, […]

Author Talk:  Come and listen to several authors talk about their work and how they created it.  Grace Hawthorne will start us off on July 8th at 1:30.  (Remember we have Atlanta Theater To Go on the 1st).  She will be discussing her new book, Lost River.  We will also listen to Terry Foody, author of The Pie Seller, The […]