WORK WITH ME
Helping other find their fullest creative expression is my great joy.
COACHING
I offer personalized, flexible coaching – in person or online.
I pride myself on listening hard and employing what I’ve learned – as a memoirist, storyteller, and solo show artist – to assist writers in uncovering their own stories, and sharing them (if they wish to share.)
PRESENTING & TEACHING
I gladly show up wherever and however I may be of service.
Participating in podcasts, panels, and Q&A…
Teaching “Memoir-in-an-Afternoon” and “Intro to Memoir”…
In conversation with readers, writers, and discussion groups
on daring to let go of our Old Stories, Rules and Roles . . .
Learning to live our own lives at any age . . .
The expatriate experience . . .
The creative process . . .
Caring for parents at the end of life . . .
Surviving infertility and other challenges in a long marriage . . .
Loving the world and loving traveling (fifty countries and counting!)
I LOVE TO HELP OTHERS
GET THEIR STORIES INTO THE WORLD
Teaching Memoir
Memoir-in-an-Afternoon with StoryJam
January 29, 2021
Talking With Book & Discussion Groups
Live or on Zoom
J. Harte Book Discussion – January 30, 2021
Serving On Panels
StoryStudio Writer’s Fest “Building your Memoir” – October 6, 2019
Nadine Kenney Johnstone’s “Master Mentor Monday” on May 4, 2020 and Memoir class on August 5, 2020
THOUGHTS ABOUT THINGS
Italia!
Italia! I fell in love with the Bel Paese as a twenty-one-year-old backpacker staying in pensioni recommended by Let’s Go: Europe. Sure, it helped that I met a handsome Roman boy first thing (now a good friend to my husband and...
The F Words
Every day, I pray for help on many things. “Please help me to set goals for my life and take steps to achieve them.” These goals include exploring, loving, and sharing the world through my art. Next I pray, “Please help me to set goals for my day.” To help me...
Patrick and Margaret
My parents had been married for sixty-six years by the time my mom died. She loved to tell me that she would never divorce my father. “One day, though,” she’d add. “I will kill him.” (She’d be holding a frying pan over my poor dad’s bald head when she said that, but...
Memoir in a Year
So what’s the key to writing a memoir in a year? For me, it helped that I’d long been writing Trip Reports from everywhere we lived around the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, the US. (That’s a lotta three-ring binders o’ stuff to draw from.) It helped that I took “Memoir...