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The OLLI Blog showcases the voices and perspectives of the OLLI @Berkeley community as well as news from and about OLLI. Have a submission? Please contact Nancy Murr to learn more.

If you are in my age group, born during WWII, you surely have vivid memories of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s which occurred during our young adulthood. Reading recently…
 
I feel compelled to write this very brief review in order to share this book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder with my OLLI classmates…
  It's safe to say that past several months have been — how to put it? — eventful ones. Now that we've tucked two all-remote-learning terms and a busy Summer Bridge program…
My walk up Folsom Street to Bernal Hill has become my constitution every day during the pandemic. It takes me 20 minutes from my house to get to the top of the hill and my heart…