I’m a right-handed, right-brain type who responds beautifully to deadlines. Writing in the morning helps me find my truth in big and small ways. The biggest truth I’ve discovered is that there are all kinds of stories inside me waiting to be told. My job: be willing to tell them.
My words have been published in Newsweek, The Complete Book of Aunts (Twelve), Bride’s, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Parenting, LA Parent, San Diego Parent, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, The Ear, Tiny Lights, Santa Monica Review and others, and heard on DimeStories. I’m also a DimeStories curator and host, a blogger for Psychology Today and creator of The Writer’s Journey.
SAMPLES
Torn Apart
I don't know when I started biting my nails. But by the time I was in the first grade, I couldn’t stop. My teeth serrated the edges of my fingernails, ripping away the half moons of new growth, leaving the tips of my nail beds, at times, exposed and tender...
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Dreams of Adoption
This winter marked the first anniversary of the adoption our daughters, 14-year-old Olya, and 11-year-old Anya, from an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia. With two beautiful children, my husband and I have lots to be grateful for. But there is a troubling aspect to our adoption story — a secret of sorts — that haunts me as a mother...
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Too young to have a mother that old
With all the medical technology that enables older and older women to have children, maybe it's time to consider the child's point of view. For me, the true impact came at 40, right before my mother died at 82...
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Original Bra
I get my first bra when I’m thirteen even though I think of what I have as a chest, not breasts. I don’t want a bra, whether I need one or not. But I soon find out that doesn’t matter...
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“The oak tree is in the acorn.”
-Anonymous
“Keep following the thread where instinct takes you. Force yourself to wait things out.”
-Ira Glass