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Sign Fun!
What happens when a writer embarks on a bucket-list trip to far away New Zealand for a month of sightseeing, visiting (author) friends,...


A Century of Love
Today my father would have been 100 years old— a staggering thought, not only because of the weight a century bears, but because his...


A Sense of Place in Michigan
A reader of my novel, Hard Cider, commented in a review that I had “deftly crafted descriptions that span all seasons as they move...


The "Back End" of Publishing
The “back end” of publishing- the publicity, marketing, and book events that happen just before, and long after a book’s publication date...

Invisibility of Older Women? Not So Much...
I keep running across blog posts and articles on the topic of older women. Most decry the fading of everything from bodies to influence....


Be Persistent- Do What You Can Never Do Again- an appreciation
With thanks to Story Circle Network, for publishing this piece in their 2018 anthology Real Women Write, Having grown up with a mother...


Our Encore Careers as Authors
I'm so pleased to have had this piece about my cohort of encore career women authors posted at Read Her Like an Open Book Conventional...


Hard Cider at Tandem Cider!
Thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Andrew McFarlane of Leelanau.com over some Smackintosh with Dan Young of Tandem Ciders in Suttons...


Honoring Veterans
My honoring of Veteran’s Day is complicated. I had two grandfathers who fought with distinction as Jewish soldiers during WWI— for...


Full Circle with Barbara Kingsolver
In 2010, I celebrated my 60th birthday by taking the recently completed manuscript of my first novel to the San Miguel Writers...
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