Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021
Great thanks to our wonderful faculty and many hundreds of blue-hand-raising, chat-box-filling members for launching our winter term with gusto. There's so much stellar learning…
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021
Let’s start with the definition of the title of this essay: Empathy. Empathy is “a person’s ability to identify with or experience the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another…
Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
Given the storming and siege of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, we thought we'd share this important conversation we held with Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, founder and chair of the UC…
Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
Over 20 years ago, friends and I started a men’s book group which has met monthly ever since. We have jointly read nearly 250 books, both fiction and non-fiction. One lesser…
Tuesday, Jan. 05, 2021
Great thanks to film journalists and critics, Harry Chotiner and Michael Fox, for a terrific conversation recently "What the hell happened to movies in 2020?" (Thank you, Harry,…
Tuesday, Jan. 05, 2021
We were delighted to host a superb conversation recently between Alexis Strauss Hacker, a former EPA acting regional administrator, and Michelle Roos, Executive Director of the…
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
All of us at OLLI @Berkeley wish you a joyful, peaceful and safe holiday season, and a (much) happier new year.
At our OLLIday Happy Hour on Dec. 18, member Rani Cochran shared…
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020
I had just spent an hour whining to my friend Barbara about how blah I felt with each additional day of isolation in this pandemic. I am an extrovert. My husband is an introvert…
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
One hundred years ago, following 70 years of demonstrations, hunger strikes, and imprisonments of women suffragettes, women gained the right to vote in the United States. But…
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020
Sagging shingles, cracked walls, cranky buzzers. We will miss them all. We are bidding farewell to our home of nearly 13 years and heading two blocks west to the Golden Bear…
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020
If you are in my age group, born during WWII, you surely have vivid memories of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s which occurred during our young adulthood. Reading recently…