Working Through Grief

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Blog, Mental health, Writing

I recently came home from a training session in the Stephen Ministry with an amazing self-revelation.  My book, CRAZY, is really a piece of grief work.  I’ve already acknowledged that writing this book was cathartic and that it is certainly autobiographical, but never...

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

by | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog

Forty-three years ago my best friend from college and I sank a hundred dollars into a limping used car, packed a few essentials like our journals, hand-made flannel nightgowns, and our recent college degrees, and set out for NYC.  We were small-town girls from Oregon...

So Much to Tell You by John Marsden

by | Sep 9, 2013 | Blog, Mental health, Writing

I recently happened onto a tiny YA book (only 119 pages) called So Much to Tell You by an Australian author named John Marsden, and I’m absolutely blown away by this author’s personal journey and this, his debut book. Marsden dropped out of law school and spent his...

MEMORIES OF SUMMER by Ruth White

by | Sep 3, 2013 | Blog, Mental health, Writing

  If you’ve been following my blog you know that my book, CRAZY, is about a teen dealing with her mother’s bipolar disorder in the sixties.  That’s why I tend to read books like MEMORIES OF SUMMER, which is a different twist on the same theme. Newbery Honor...