Most of us want to know that we matter and that our lives matter. Leaving a written memoir is a legacy of sorts, a way of documenting what small impact we hope we have had in the lives of [...]
Everyone has a story to tell. Not every story needs to be published. But some do. Oftentimes people want to record family stories and memoir pieces for their families. They may not [...]
There are many paths to publication and everyone has their own unique story about how they got there. This is a simple sharing of my own experiences in case it is helpful to others.
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My new novel has much to say about the importance of families and their evolving nature. I believe that discussions about family structure are particularly relevant in a country such as ours [...]
Some people are curious about the title of my new book. I’m by no means an expert on Persian carpets but I thought that it might be useful to share some thoughts about my interest in carpets. [...]
Here is an excerpt from Stella’s Carpet, coming out in the fall. “Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the [...]
Most of us can survey our bodies and point out the scars or marks left by accidents and our encounters with life – a badly scraped ankle from a fall, a broken arm, a deep cut, a burn, perhaps [...]
None of the furniture in our house is particularly valuable but each piece priceless in terms of the memories and history it represents, and each has its own story. There’s a stuffed armchair [...]
In the early part of our marriage, I determined that I would one day write a book about mothers-in-law, as a thinly-veiled revenge piece for daughters-in-law everywhere. It would not have been a [...]
