OLLI CONNECTS
Monthly Magazine

December 2025

Celebrate OLLIdays

Let’s Get Married!
Russ Hostetler

Seattle Snapshots
Bharat Pathakjee

Food For Thought
Arlene Zimney

Features

Essays | Themes | Research

Holiday Vignettes

In Which Scrooge is Redeemed

— Sheryl Long

Two Holiday Poems and a Linzer Torte

— Victoria Dym

The Observer

Commentary | Reviews | Extras

OLLI Connects Bids Farewell to 2025

Defining Moments that Mattered

A Holiday Cartoon by Art Henrikson

OLLI Connects thanks all our writers for their contributions to this magazine. If you have shared work with us and are teaching classes for OLLI this term, please send us the details to help us promote your courses in advance.

Community of Readers and Writers — This SIG (Shared Interest Group) meets via zoom for discussion and special events and to share reading of current novels, non-fiction, short stories, memoirs and essays. We offer feedback through group conversation with experienced readers and train newcomers in our supportive methods. Our private Facebook site is a resource of ideas for developing your storytelling and literary skills. Contact readersandwriters.too@gmail.com.

New Adventures in Writing | Marilyn Myerson | Thu 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM • 3/26 – 4/16 • 4 mtg • $50/members | Lake Magdalene Church | Click here to register.

African American Women Who Didn’t Make the History Books | Sheryl Long | Mon 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM • 02/02/26 • 1 mtg • $50/members | Allegro at Hyde Park Senior Living | Click here to register.

Outsider Collage Workshop | Sheryl Long | Mon 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | • 02/09 – 02/16 • 2 mtgs • $40/members | Arbor Terrace at Citrus Park. Click here to register.

Behind the Scenes with Robert Rauschenberg | Sheryl Long | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM • Mon. 03/09 • 1 mtg • $20/members | Canterbury Tower | Click here to register.

Women in Mapmaking | Sheryl Long | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM • Mon. 04/14 – 04/20 • 2mtgs • $40/members | Blue Palms Village at Fletcher | Click here to register.

Talkin’ Politics | Steve Tobin | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM • Session 1 • Mon. 02/02 – 03/09 • 5 mtgs • $75/members | Compton Park | click here to register. Session 2 will follow in March.

China’s 59 World Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites | Kun Shi | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM • Thu 01/22 – 01/29 • 2mtgs • $40/members | Blue Palms Village at Fletcher. | click here to register.

Politics Today | Rich Kennedy | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM • Tues 03/24 – 04/07 • 3 mtgs • $60/members | Aston Gardens at Tampa Bay. Click here to register.

Sundays with Science | Peter Neame | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM • Sun 02/15 – 03/29 • 4 mtgs • $50/members • Virtual Class meets every two weeks. | Click here to register.

Closetology | Jackie Walker | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM • Thu 04/09 – 04/16 • 2 mtgs • $30/members | North Tampa Branch Library | Click here to register.

Yoga for Healthy Aging | Jennifer Leavy | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM • Tues 02/03 – 02/24 • 4 mtgs • $40/members | Pose by Pose Yoga Studio | Click here to register.