February 2026
Join us on Saturday, February 21st, 2026, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. As usual, we will meet at the Devonshire Senior Center, 2802 E. Devonshire Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85016, to connect, catch up on club activities, and hear from this month’s speaker:
Journalist and Author Robrt Pela
Robrt Pela is a Pulliam Prize-winning journalist who, for 30 years, was a staff writer at New Times, the Phoenix city weekly. He’s held staff positions at The Advocate, Psychology Today, and Men’s Fitness, and is a longtime regular contributor to National Public Radio affiliate KJZZ. These days, he writes for Phoenix Magazine and Phoenix Home and Garden. His last book was Filthy, a biography of the film director John Waters; he’s working on another, about America’s broken elder-care system. He teaches writing workshops at ASU and Changing Hands Books and owns an editing business, Red Pen Ink, where he works on book projects with first-time authors. Robrt and his husband divide their time among homes in Arizona, Ohio, and Provence.
Robrt will speak on how it’s possible to keep writing even when you don’t want to, the current state of the publishing industry, and how it’s working and not working, and “writer’s block”. Is it a myth or a fact?
