My victory lap. Back in Jackson Heights, Queens , at my beloved public library, after climbing out a two-story window to run away from...

A warm welcome from the staff at Barnes & Noble   Massapequa Park, Long Island. Karen, a fan came by to have me sign her book that she...

One of the best things about being a published writer and speaking in bookstores is meeting people who thank me for telling my story and...

This is the last photo I have of my mom. That's me, just a few months old, taken a few months before she died. I see a kind face. I am...

Memoirist Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic upbringing. She asks a timeless...

My very first interview discussing my childhood and my new book "Redeemed" about overcoming that childhood was with them. The interview...

I am SO amazed by Kristin Hannah's new book, The Women, about women serving as nurses in Vietnam, their courage, strength and...

Great article in Psychology today on how surviving family trauma can be so isolating. No one sees the scars. "Children from dysfunctional...

How is it that almost every woman I know has issues with their mothers? How it is that I always seem attracted to people who have had...