VIRGINIA BURLINGAME is a counseling psychologist who continues to teach, write, and present programs on aging in her senior years. She is the author of Gerocounseling, Counseling Elders and Their Families (1995) and Ethnogerocounseling, Counseling Ethnic Elders and Their Families (1999). She authored the column, Artful Aging ,for the Racine Journal Times and produced and appeared in the cable TV program, Senior Racine. She has an MSW from Boston University, a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and post doctorate fellowships in gerontology/geriatrics from Wisconsin, Marquette, and Stanford Universities and attended the Writer’s Workship at the University of Iowa for three summers. Dr.Burlingame was a member of the Assoc. of Clinical Social Work and the American Assoc. of Clinical Marriage and Family Therapy. After a successful career in social work (Outstanding Career in Social Work, Boston University, 1996), she taught at and co-directed the Gerontology Institute-UW Parkside