Deborah KasdanWhen Deborah Kasdan retired from a thirty-five-year career writing about business and technology, she joined Westport Writers Workshop to make her personal stories come alive. She has served on the board of directors of an intergenerational housing oganization and the National Organization on Mental Illness (NAMI) for Southwest CT. Her favorite activities are swimming, yoga, and visits with her four grandchildren. During the summer she and her husband reside near the great Nauset Marsh of Cape Cod and live the rest of the year in Norwalk, Connecticut. Currently she is writing a novel based on her mother's adventures during the 1930s in Chicago, where she grew up in a Jewish orphanage.