Losing Weight/Gaining Self-Esteem

by | Nov 4, 2013 | Blog, Mental health

    I’m an advocate of good mental health, and good mental health is often closely related to good physical health.  Danielle Dooley is my 22-year-old Great Niece who has made some choices in her life that have impacted her physical and mental well...

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...

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...