Looking Back, Moving On

About the Book

It takes courage and perseverance to revisit the days and nights of our lives and write down what we find to make a record of our lives. Looking Back, Moving On provides the guide to begin the adventure and helps us through the pleasures and pitfalls, the joys and the sorrows that may be encountered. Rubin enables us to discover that, ultimately, the project is the gift of self-discovery we give to ourselves, which enables us to go on to enjoy life to the fullest. Excerpts from her students’ writing contribute to our feeling of being part of the creative community

About the Author

Janice Rubin never thought of herself as a teacher until she began to write her memoirs and a friend suggested she teach others how to write theirs. Now in the tenth year of a teaching career, the award-winning former reporter/columnist, who has a Master’s in psychology, offers an enlarged second volume on the autobiography workshops she developed as a synthesis of her psychology and journalism skills. The mother of two daughters and a perennial student, she lives with her husband and two cats in the foothills of the Ramapos and is learning Buddhism via Thich Nhat Hanh’s order of Interbeing.