Mental Health Therapist Turned Writer

I meet the author of Happiness Falls, Angie Kim, on a Zoom book club discussion. What an honor, because her writing is top-notch. While reading her book, I kept thinking this story was like a domesticated Da Vinci Code because Read more

Life Transition: “To be nobody-but yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” ~ e.e. cummings. We Read more

Father’s Day is in June and I have been pondering fatherhood and what has changed in parenting styles over my lifetime. However, I can’t speak of all fathers or the demographic variations of how fathers parent throughout the US. Yet, Read more

Wilkerson strategically weaves through the use of a dual timeline and multiple points of view an engaging storyline that reveals the secret past of Eleanor Bennett to her children through a recording played after her death. Her children are left Read more

THE MESSY LIFE OF JANE TANNER by Brenda Novak. This book is about a woman’s quest to become a mother. Her clock is ticking, and she doesn’t see many options for herself in the situation she is in. Besides the Read more

Life Transitions: Last month I wrote about the “slow movement” and this month I’m carrying that theme further. While gardening with my head down planting cold weather crops, I heard a bird call out a tribute to spring. I immediately knew Read more

Life Transitions: My granddaughters are into buying clothes at consignment stores. This is an aspect of “slow fashion”. Slow fashion is an awareness that considers the manufacturing process and resources used to make the clothes. Our local newspaper had an Read more

This month I have two books to review. The first is OBEY ALL LAWS from a debut author friend of mine, Cindy Grodstein. Cindy’s years of experience as a probation officer bring her new series to life. If you like Read more

It’s February, so love is often on everyone’s mind. However, especially on Valentine’s Day, it can be a difficult reminder of a loved one lost, or that a person may currently not have a special someone to celebrate with, or Read more