Starting November 19, 2012, Billye Okera will be presenting a four-week workshop dealing with the stress, depression, blues and just plain old loneliness that can ruin our holidays, especially the holidays of our elders whoes traditions and rituals no longer play out as "The Happy Holidays" because loved ones have died or moved away.  STAND ON SERENITY is a creative support group, usinging journaling, music, poetry and other creative expressions to confront and defeat holiday depression. Join poet/workshop leader Billye Okera, author of "The Mourners' Bench" in a progressive jmpstart to short ciurcuit holidy depression.  Held at the Camp Springs Senior Center, Allentown Road, Camp Springs, Maryland.  Free to the Public.  Time of Workshop will be published later.,