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Perhaps I missed my calling as a milliner, with all the hats I wear: author of the award-winning mindfulness-themed picture book Charlotte and the Quiet Place and the Sober Starting Today Workbook, essayist, writing coach, editor, proofreader, GrubStreet instructor. In addition, I'm a mindfulness therapist with a small private practice. I enjoy the variety and am glad you stopped by. Feel free to explore these pages and contact me if you would like to know more.
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New Book Title Reveal!
I'm thrilled to announce that my collection of 70 micro-memoirs of 70 words each written to mark my 70th birthday is in production! Drumroll, please:
ESCAPE VELOCITY: HOW ONE 70-YEAR-OLD PUSH-PULLED HER WAY OUT OF HER TOO-MUCH-NOT-ENOUGH FAMILY
Escape Velocity is part flash nonfiction, part prose poem. Through one lens, the collection is about growing up in a loving but enmeshed family, searching for selfhood and love and sex (all together, is that too much to ask?!), and finally celebrating being single and whole at 70. Through another lens, it’s about the wild social and sexual trajectory women experienced between the 1960s and today. It’s also about confusion, hope, resilience, passion, loss, aging, and acceptance. And some really bad dates. All in 4,900 words.
And, BONUS, the volume will be designed and illustrated by the fabulous artist Anna Hall, who is crafting 70 black-and-white images to accompany each micro.
Launch scheduled for February 27, 2026. Stay tuned for sneak previews and other announcements. See more info on my Substack, here.
Charlotte and the Quiet Place Turns 10!
Happy Birthday, Charlotte! Click here for links to videos and articles and much more, including this lively, wide-ranging YouTube interview with Giselle Shardlow, founder of Kids Yoga Stories, about how to help children find a quiet place inside.
Sober Starting Today Workbook: Buy Signed Copies on Sale
Thinking of cutting back or cutting out your alcohol or drug use? Contemplating "Dry January"? Purchase signed copies here. $20 per copy plus shipping.
Featured Writing & Media
WOW! Ten excerpts from This Is 70: A Life in Micro-Memoirs published on Sari Botton's Oldster Magazine on May 26 and went viral! Over 59K views and counting. I'm thrilled, honored, excited, and grateful for all the comments and feedback. Eagerly seeking a publisher for the full set.
Another This Is 70 excerpt, "Bosom Buddies," appeared in Short Reads on June 25, 2025.
Please visit my Substack, Write It Like It Is: Everyday Observations and Existential Musings in Five Micro-Memoirs, for my weekly post . All-access for all subscribers, free or paid.
Check out my May 23, 2025, live video chat with poet and old friend Adam Roberts on Every Day, Luv, about the writing life and other related topics.
Listen to "So, You Want to Be a Writer," a fun and wide-ranging podcast interview on Jeff Ikler's "Getting Unstuck: Cultivating Curiosity" series, March 18, 2025.
Check out "The Macro Micro-Memoir Challenge," on Brevity Blog, January 22, 2025, which details the conception and construction of my new book project of 70 micro-memoirs of 70 words each.
SOBER STARTING TODAY WORKBOOK: POWERFUL MINDFULNESS & CBT TOOLS TO HELP YOU BREAK FREE FROM ADDICTION, with a foreword by Christopher Germer, PhD.
Details here.
CHARLOTTE AND THE QUIET PLACE
Brief info here, or go to Charlotte's dedicated website here for full details.
ESSAYS
Archives include creative nonfiction, cultural commentary, and craft essays here.
BLOG
Check out the archived posts on my blog.
Clinical Services Update
2025: I am no longer accepting clients in my clinical practice.