Aleta Chossek

Through writing her book, “Krisitine, Finding Home,” Aleta has developed her storytelling as a calling. Daring to share family stories with others primarily through Red Oak Roundtables and Judy Bridges Writing Workshops has opened for Aleta a world of shared human experience and joy. Writing allows Aleta to reflect on lessons from her family, travel and working with the people of a small area in Tanzania. A wife, sister, mother and grandmother she tries to follow the advice of poet Mary Oliver, “Pay attention, Be astonished, Tell about it.”