CMAP Chronicles
Stay up-to-date on the latest trends, tips, and topics with these short, informative, and fun-to-read articles written by CMAP staff & guest contributors.
Memoir Lane
The Balloon Ride
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin • Oct 28, 2025
“After signing up for nine consecutive sessions of ‘Time to Tell Your Story,’ the memoir writing class led by Wendy Humphrey, I can say my life has been changed. I entered the class knowing only how to write for scholarly journals. Now I have a memoir in press that fills...
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GrandPal Joan Kuskin
Joan Kuskin is the grandmother of five wonderful adult granddaughters, and have very much missed the experience of reading to them as young children. It...
Ella Leving • Apr 12, 2024
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GrandPal Ellen Gilbert
Ellen Gilbert is a retired librarian. She has been doing GrandPals for about a hundred-million years, and thinks it’s the bee’s knees. “Early on, Camryn...
Ella Leving • Apr 12, 2024
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GrandPal Frank
GrandPal Frank: Spreading Joy One Fist Bump at a Time In the heart of our GrandPals sessions, amid the pages turned and stories shared, there...
Ella Leving • Apr 11, 2024
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Meet Virginia
Hi, I’m Virginia, and let me share my wonderful experience at the lottery event on March 16, hosted alongside the Princeton Art Museum and Princeton...
Ana Carolina González-Peña • Mar 29, 2024
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Meet Robin Bivins
I’m Robin Bivins, a Princeton local and the sixth generation from the heart of New Jersey. Right now, I call Reading Circle home, and I’ve...
Ana Carolina González-Peña • Feb 28, 2024
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Meet Debra Morgernstern
I discovered a gem within the Center for Modern Aging Princeton — the French club. Joining this vibrant community not only revived forgotten memories but...
Ana Carolina González-Peña • Feb 21, 2024
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If you are human, you have...
We all hold unconscious beliefs about others; it’s normal to categorize or organize our understanding of other people. This is known as “unconscious bias” or...
Ana Carolina González-Peña • Feb 14, 2024
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Meet William Freeman
My wife passed away last June after battling cancer. It was a tough time for both of us, and her absence is felt every day....
Ana Carolina González-Peña • Feb 08, 2024
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Decluttering, Ho! Strategies for Creating a...
Are you surrounded by sentimental keepsakes, items that might come in handy someday, and a hodgepodge of papers and gadgets you don’t know what to...
Kellan Peck • Jan 26, 2024
