Vistas & Byways - Spring 2022
  • CONTENTS
    • IN THIS ISSUE
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Stew
    • Inside OLLI
    • Photo Essays
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTRIBUTORS

NONFICTION  

What guided me to here?     -     Weebly.com

Stories about:  Lucky/Unlucky?


Growing Up on a Farm in Wisconsin:  Lucky or Unlucky?  
by Charlene Anderson
Is it lucky to be educated in a one-room schoolhouse? Well . . . sort of.
A Day in the Life
by Marsha Michaels
A trip to the eye clinic entails extraordinary challenges for a mobility-challenged San Franciscan.
A Lucky Escape
by Vivien Zielin
Walking to a much-anticipated event in London, the author escapes a potentially horrendous accident by the skin of her teeth, then wonders why it happened.
Saved Again
by Vera Jacobson
The author of this hilarious nonfiction piece has close encounters with two equally inappropriate men.

Stories about Other Topics


El Camino de Santiago
by Barbara Applegate
Memories of her Spanish pilgrimage continue to boost this writer’s spirits years after she completed it.  
Identity Crisis
by Cathy Fiorello
The writer wrestles with the concept of how to identify herself, once as mother, now as writer—or not.  
Unexpected Adventures of an Election Observer
in Mongolia and Ukraine

by Mary Noel Pepys
The author shares the contrasts between voting procedures that she observed in these two
countries: the contrasts are stunning.
A Historical Perspective
by Barbara Applegate
In her childhood town, garbage was thrown in the river, but do we handle garbage any better now?
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LUCKY TO FIND AN OPEN STORE - Pamela Pitt

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WELCOME HOME - Barbara Applegate

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Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University​.​
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  • CONTENTS
    • IN THIS ISSUE
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Stew
    • Inside OLLI
    • Photo Essays
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTRIBUTORS