Michael J. Sheehan
Michael Sheehan retired from the City Colleges of Chicago in 1994 after teaching in the English Department at Olive-Harvey College for 26 years. He lives in Leelanau County, Michigan with his artist wife Dona. In his spare time he is a writer, and he does a weekly guest stint on Tuesday mornings from 9:00-10:00 on AM 580, WTCM. The show is called Words to the Wise, and it covers the joys and vicissitudes of the English language. Mike's program can be heard in streaming audio from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. each Tuesday by going to www.wtcmradio.com and clicking on the Listen button. Podcasts are available on the site. Mike also maintains a blog about language at www.verbmall.blogspot.com. It covers the same issues that crop up on his weekly radio program: word and phrase origins, punctuation concerns, verb and pronoun agreement, historical aspects of English, and many other items of concern to writers and readers. B O O K S
In addition to the Society of Midland Authors, he is also a member of the
Dictionary Society of North America and Michigan Writers. He writes
frequently for The Vocabula Review at Sheehan hosts a radio program every Tuesday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 with Ron Jolly on WTCM, Talk Radio 580, Traverse City, Michigan. The show, which features call-ins, is called Words to the Wise, and it focuses on the joys and the tribulations of the English language. Sheehan is highly involved in senior issues. He is a member of the advisory board of the Bay Area Senior Advocates, a consortium of service providers in the Traverse City, Michigan, area. He also serves on the advisory board of the Area Agency on Aging of northwest Michigan, and in 2011 he was appointed to the Commission on Services to the Aging by Michigan's Governor.
He maintains The Senior Corner, a web site for senior citizens, at
As an offshoot of his internet activities, Sheehan teaches classes at Traverse City's Senior Center. The classes are designed to help older residents become more proficient at gleaning information from the World Wide Web and communicating with others, thus breaking the cycle of isolation which plagues many seniors. He plans to return to novel writing as soon as he gets some free time.
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