Starla Criser

Starla is a firm believer that age should not define you. At some point in our lives, we all deal with physical change issues. Getting older isn’t pretty. Giving up on yourself is worse.

Her life has included many changes involving moves, career fluctuations, health issues, and losses of family and friends. Not different from many people. How we deal with changes matters.

Through her decades of life, she has constantly adjusted and will do so until the day she is no longer here. She endures the losses and cherishes her memories. She accepts needing to adapt to health problems and the simple fact that her body can no longer do what she did in her earlier years.

She no longer works in the normal working world. Yet she feels busier these days than ever before. It always amazes her when people think just because you no longer work in the paying world that you do nothing. That’s not true for her.

She has been a volunteer in her community helping at senior centers in some manner for thirty-two years. She helps behind the scenes at many events. She works and visits with other scrapbookers. She does her best to make lap quilts that are given to adults and babies in our community. She guides and instructs older adults who wish to explore writing or pen their life stories.

Starla is a multi-published author of eight children’s books and two collections of relationship stories about mature adults over age 60. Working with senior center authors, she has published six story collections of their works, as well as a cookbook.

But she is not done!