When I retired twelve years ago, the top item on my bucket list was to write a novel, but my top TRAVEL bucket list choice was New...

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

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 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 publicity, marketing, and book events that happen just before, and long after a book’s publication date...

I keep running across blog posts and articles on the topic of older women. Most decry the fading of everything from bodies to influence....

With thanks to Story Circle Network, for publishing this piece in their 2018 anthology Real Women Write, Having grown up with a mother...

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...

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...