Comments Judge Rebecca Crampton-Kamukala has memiors to write and on this episode of yWrite she shares how Writing Groups have given her focus. Judge Crampton-Kamukala was appointed the 1st woman judge in the Massachusetts Juvenile Court System in 1986, and after retiring at the age of eighty, she has written volumes in the Massachusetts Family Court System. As a writer, she is devoting her time to writing hew own memoirs with the help of the Springfield Museum Creative Writing Program. yWrite Angela Grout and Judge Crampton-Kamukala have participated in this writing group and together they share the advantanges of writing in a group setting. Learn how to stay focused with your memoir, give feedback, and coordinate life events to include in a memoir. Judge Crampton-Kamukala discusses her passion to help others. Her energy for living a life to encourage others is evident as she shares how she became a home economics teacher in America in the early 1960s, to teaching in Turkey, becoming a mother, lawyer, judge, and now memoirist. Included in this episode is a recording of her reading a selection of her memior titled GETTING READY TO GO TO TURKEY. For more information on Judge Crampton-Kamukala, contact the Springfield Museum Education Center.