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...

Thinking about independence and freedom reminds me that some of us have to work really hard to break from the yoke that other people-our...

OMG! I am really starting to feel like a writer! Sausalito Books by the Bay has my book, Redeemed A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood listed...

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...

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...

I was heartened by this memoir, Devout, by Anna Gazmarian describing her experience with mental illness in the Evangelical church. It...

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...