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

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

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

Autumn is my favorite season- crisp air, stunning foliage, and that deeply rooted ‘back-to-school’ energy. That last is a good thing, as...

With thanks to Women on Writing for their publication of this piece! Abbie Rose Stone, the main character in my forthcoming novel, Hard...

So appreciated being able to post this piece at Writers Helping Writers Five Ways to Prepare for an Encore Career as a Writer 1. Plan...

I recently read a Tablet Magazine piece that discussed ways in which Jewish baby-boomer women are redefining what it means to be a...

For at least ten years, I’d passed the brightly painted sign along the winding road on the peninsula where I love to live in northwest...

Every June 4, on the beautiful Leelanau Peninsula in northern Michigan, dozens of women in their 50s, 60s and 70s gather in one of the...

Wrangling a book manuscript through an umpteenth revision in the deep freeze of a Michigan winter is reason enough to be seeing the world...