https://www.sarahjacobus.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-17 https://www.sarahjacobus.com/about daily 0.75 2023-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629777651923-5M1UPNGLLB2FJR4NIWOE/Headshot.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sarahjacobus.com/timeslips daily 0.75 2023-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1628722856528-ZTWMHKYOSZ4M81OGYP3T/SJ+and+Miriam.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1633384852527-SBJVROJ0TCDZKFX408C2/Sj%2Bfacil%2BTS%2Bcopy.jpg TimeSlips - I was certified as a TimeSlips facilitator by TimeSlips founder Anne Basting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 2014. Since then, I’ve led TimeSlips storytelling groups in residential care communities, senior centers, senior housing, and adult day programs, and worked with individual clients in their homes. I am also a Certified TimeSlips Trainer, coaching a roster of international trainees through the process of becoming a Certified TimeSlips Facilitator. I headed up a year-long TimeSlips project in 2019 to certify 10 Los Angeles County residential care communities and organizations serving elders as “Creative Communities of Care.” When in-person creative engagement became impossible with the COVID-19 shutdown in early 2020, I began to explore remote delivery of TimeSlips, facilitating a virtual TimeSlips group on Zoom through Alzheimer’s Los Angeles. As a volunteer with the phone reassurance program of Meals on Wheels, making weekly supportive calls to homebound clients, I introduced the TimeSlips concept of “beautiful questions”--open-ended questions with no right or wrong answers--into my calls. These questions yielded a richness of stories, reinvigorated the calls, and deepened my rapport with clients. The agency embraced the concept of beautiful questions and integrated them into each weekly call script. A colleague and I have offered a series of training webinars for other volunteers on ways to use them in their calls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632275881210-P55A288OU28WLFBFRSO7/Fay.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1624400750063-PDI83868B3ETNUA56UMJ/IMG_1855.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632275910609-5IW2IQ9XYP83OYP66L7D/Maria.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632275808152-1ZRRJ57FYJGFFJQTMXJN/Will.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632275756410-LQ7YW6ET6FXDG0ZJ0Q3N/Leola.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1624401140291-PP0LJUDZQ8K2LB2SYHNG/IMG_1872.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632273978922-Y39RXOS8A0OXECFHNVJB/Hanukkah+party.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Over 100 elders gather in the senior center courtyard for the performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632274545537-6V5VEU1YO7ZFL37IZPFZ/Ladies+Choice+rehearse+copy.jpg TimeSlips - Make it stand out The cast runs lines in rehearsal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632274622470-Y7B03F0GME5I445BV4RJ/Ladies+Choice+perform+square.jpg TimeSlips - Make it stand out The premiere performance of “Ladies’ Choice” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1628798624492-J3UH3HZXHZLKMVRAKLQ4/Park+Plaza+exhibit+opening.jpeg TimeSlips - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sarahjacobus.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-06 https://www.sarahjacobus.com/writing-poetry daily 0.75 2023-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/189f08e9-4133-4acf-ad09-1e4f1c9c3dcf/SarahJacobus.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/0d9f018c-cdd0-49a4-8ad9-cf533ebe34da/IMG_5240.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632285916134-14Q7Z1Q62YSYDK6LKY1K/2020+still+life.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1631056900751-MP1OM49NAQEPSNPN7IMH/Possible+Work+poem+replacement.jpeg Writing & Poetry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1624430716323-89ACRF7TPHJFZHNVHGWN/IMG_4701.jpg Writing & Poetry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sarahjacobus.com/every-life-is-a-story daily 0.75 2021-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756575712-CV81CAC3OP3E3DZJ2IFC/SJ+Favorite+object+pics+42.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “In 1974, my friend and I went on a cruise in the Caribbean. They had a dance contest, jitterbug and ballroom dancing. I love jitterbug. But not like they do on ‘Dancing with the Stars!’ We went in the contest, and we won first prize. This trophy reminds me of all the years that I danced. It was the happiest time of my life. Dancing was my whole life. Everything could hurt me, but when it came to dancing, nothing hurt—until we got in the car after. I took five girls to the dance three, four, and five nights a week. And after dancing four hours, you should have heard us in the car: ‘Oh, my back!’ ‘Oh, my feet!’ ‘Oh, my neck!’ Oh, everything! But like I say, nothing bothers you when you’re dancing.” - Anne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756243022-6U31F3O7WDXH7AQZSFL6/SJ+Favorite+object+pics3.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “We fled from Poland to Russia when World War II started.. I was four years old. I don’t remember having any pajamas during wartime. Nobody had pajamas. I didn’t even know that pajamas existed. From Russia, we went to the DP camps in Stuttgart, Germany. Then we came to Jerusalem, because we couldn’t get an affidavit for the United States. Life in Israel was very difficult in the beginning. Even though my mother was a seamstress, there was no fabric to buy, nothing at all. So people brought her old things, and she changed them and made something. She worked at home. After high school, I went into the army. The first holiday we had, I came back to Jerusalem to see my family and found a surprise on my bed. My mother said, ‘Open it, it’s yours.’ It was a beautiful, beautiful surprise for me. Pajamas! My mother made them from pieces. I don’t know where the pants are. Perhaps they are somewhere. But what is most dear to me is that my mother did it.” - Hadasa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756680917-IOQQ9QTBAV2HEOGYBNE4/SJ+Favorite+object+pics+4.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “I got this medal in a little town near Prague in 1995, 50 years after my liberation. The mayor of the city presented us with this as a souvenir of liberation 50 years after. I’m proud of having this medal, because the mayor and all the people in Czechoslovakia were very nice to us. They told us that we are really something. They asked us to sign autographs like we were celebrities. All the children came and got in line, and we were sitting and signing autographs like actors! They made dinners for us, and they made all kind of movies, and they tried to make the best for us, like to make up for things we went through. They felt that they were a part of what happened to us. That’s why we were celebrated.” - Adela https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756181717-862KRLL8AYLOGCNJ1P1Z/SJ+Favorite+object+pics2.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “My Maltese’s name was Sebastian, and he lived with me for seven years. He was the best company for me. He pushed me to walk. I walked him four times a day. I don’t know if it was his face, but people were drawn to him, and we’d start talking. When he passed away, I missed him as if he were my son. I still do.. I have his picture on the side of my bed, and every day I say, ‘Good morning, baby. How I miss you!’ I know there are a lot of dogs waiting to be adopted, but I didn’t want to replace him. Because nobody can replace my Sebastian.” - Emiko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756615668-HVWR159ANZ85FB2YWAXN/SJ+Favorite+object+pics+43.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “This was one of my happiest moments. My mother ordered this horse for a picture on my 5th birthday. I was so proud. My father was an Orthodox rabbi, so we lived in this big old house right next to the synagogue. There was always a lot of chaos. He used to send me to make sure the members came to the synagogue or sell reserved seats for the High Holidays. There weren’t a lot of happy memories from my childhood. That’s why I cherish this picture, so I can say, ‘Oh boy, at least I was happy then!’” - Vivian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1629756143598-5UED536FJ57W6OT1UI87/SJ+Favorite+object+pics.jpg Every Life is a Story - Make it stand out “My dear mother gave me this necklace when I was a child. We left Iraq in 1950, during the revolution, during the aliyah to Israel. Everybody had to leave, and we couldn’t take anything with us, just whatever we were wearing. Some women couldn’t bear to leave their jewelry, so they swallowed it before the trip to Israel. I don’t know how this necklace survived. I didn’t swallow it, I remember that!” - Clair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609f5e16dc3a4961f4597776/1632355357812-J6L8L7AVWKU2I32K4CIF/Movie+theatre.jpg Every Life is a Story - The prompt: a couple has been dating for a few months, and the man wants to be closer. Hadasa: Did you like the movie that we saw last time? Emiko: Yes, I enjoyed it very much. H: You see, and we could do it every week if you want. E: Yes, I would accept this. H: You know what? I am very lonely. This is a fact. I lost my wife a year ago. And I would like to have a person to talk to, to discuss the places we went and what’s happening in the world. Just to have the person near me. What do you think? E: To me, that’s okay. We could have some talks. H: But I’m asking if you could be near me. A little nearer. E: I have to think about this. H: You have to think about everything, it seems.