On May 3, I interviewed Adair Lara after she spoke at our GaGa Sisterhood meeting. She told me about her two granddaughters, Ryan and Maggie, and their favorite ways of spending time together. She explains why humor is so important to her and why she chose to write The Granny Diaries from a humorous perspective. Adair also talks about her 20 years of teaching and her newest book, Naked, Drunk, and Writing on writing essays and memoirs.

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On Sunday, May 3, 2009 Adair Lara will be the guest speaker at our GaGa Sisterhood meeting in San Francisco. I’ve been looking forward to meeting Adair since I read The Granny Diaries last December.  Adair has a fabulous sense of humor and a great ear for dialogue. Her wry irreverence captured so many of my own experiences — especially her perspective as the maternal grandmother. Her observations are thoughtful, poignant and humorous. She shares her own feelings with such honesty you’ll want to finish her book in one sitting.

Adair honed her humor at the SF Chronicle, where she wrote a twice-weekly column for 12 years. She’s also published ten books and currently teaches classes on writing essays, humor and memoir in her San Francisco Victorian home.

All grandmothers are welcome to attend this meeting from 2 to 4 pm. We’ll be meeting at the home of one of our members. For more information and details of the location, please send an email to: donnedavis@gagasisterhood.com

The GaGa Sisterhood is a social network for energetic, enthusiastic, caring grandmothers who:

• Indulge in the joy of being grandmas.
• Share creative ways to connect with our grandchildren.
• Explore what it means to be a grandma today.

We’ve been meeting for six years in the San Francisco Bay Area to share our wisdom and resources in ways that enrich our family life.

The Granny Diaries will be available for sale at this meeting. Bring a check for $12.95 or cash if you’d like to purchase a signed copy.

We’ll have a chance to learn more about how Adair’s book evolved and share some of our own feelings about being a grandma today.

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Nancy Mellon is a therapist, teacher, and author of three books. Her newest book is Body Eloquence. She has been teaching storytelling as a healing art for over two decades and believes that stories broaden our inner knowing, our compassion, and our sense of self. They can help us nurture our own natural intelligence by speaking directly to and from every organ in our body. She believes that as we collaborate more with our own creativity, our relationship with others and ourselves will evolve with it.

Nancy believes that grandmothers have a mission to restore sanity to the earth. We can become parents again in a new way. We can take all our wisdom and see what inspiration comes to us in helping children grow up. Grandparents can have a profound influence because parents are so busy they often don’t have the time or the attention that we grandmothers do.

In the interview Nancy explains why grandmothers play such an important role as storytellers in our grandchildren’s lives.

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