Diana WienerBrooklyn-born, Diana Wiener lived in Yonkers, New York. Together with her husband Sy, she mothered four children and has eight grandchildren. The focus of her 30's was family and community. Diana became the first woman ever elected to Port Jervis, NYs Common Council, serving two terms. An entrepreneur at 42, her commercial interior design company employed 33. When Diana and Sy retired, they wintered for a decade in a Mexican enclave of artists. At 56, she was certified as a PADI Scuba Instructor! For seven years, Diana posted political commentary, essays, and memoir on her blog, "My Century, So Far." In 2014, "What Having An Abortion In 1959 Was Like," received 700,000 BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Reddit, and Longform views. Calliope published three of her essays in 2015. A 1914 journal, written in her grandfather's hand, instigated ten years of genealogical research, inspiring the passion to write the account of her Hungarian great-grandmother's life; The Wellspring, Fannie's Story, a creative nonfiction narrative. During the pandemic, Diana founded The Buzz, a newsletter that served her retirement community and lifted everyone's spirits-a story covered in The New York Times. Read More Read Less