She ran several Creative Writing workshops and asked me to join two of them when I retired.  She was a spry 81 year old grandmother and widow who had been writing for over 40 years.  During my fourth year of attending her her workshop an inoperable brain tumor was discovered.  Not knowing the prognosis, she asked me to take over one of her classes.  She passed away three weeks later.  I now coordinate this class and another while attending other creative writing workshops.  This sad event led to opportunity and a whole new career.