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Do You Believe in Signs?
One month ago today, my sweet dog Gunner passed away. Grief is a tricky thing, and I still feel his absence in our home, in my daily schedule, in my bedtime routine...pretty much everything.
A couple days after we lost Gunner, I posted abo...
Jos Linder of Prose Playground on Creating a Writing Community and Supporting Other Writers
Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with !
Huge thanks to Jos for joining me as we chatted about Prose Playground, the benefits of writing communities, and so much more. Make sure you go check out Prose Playgro...
25 Years After 9/11. I Will Never Forget
I snapped this photo with my pink Le Clic camera on my 5th grade field trip to the Statue of Liberty in 1987 when I lived in New Jersey. It feels so special to have this now. Never forget. 🇺🇸
25 years ago: I was a 25-year-old teacher’s a...
Lori Tucker-Sullivan on Rock Widows, The Power of Music, and Writing About Grief
Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in for our live chat on Monday! (And I apologize for our technical difficulties that led to a different link than the scheduled one. If you got lost along the way, no worries there’s a recording!)
Hu...
Stephanie Weaver on Writing a Memoir and Navigating the Bitter, Sweet Parts of Family and Healing
Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in for our live chat on Monday! Huge thanks to Stephanie Weaver for joining me for this lovely conversation. We chatted about her memoir Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken,...
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Heather Sweeney's work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, HuffPost, Business Insider, and elsewhere. Her military divorce memoir CAMOUFLAGE: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage is out now!
Former print magazine editor-in-chief and dating expert. NYU Journalism Instructor. Freelance Writing Direct Podcast. TEDx Speaker. Author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. Writing a narrative non-fiction book about the 90s and early aughts.
Casey Mulligan Walsh's work has appeared in The NY Times, HuffPost, Split Lip, WebMD, Modern Loss, and elsewhere. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe (Motina Books), released in February 2025. Find Casey at www.caseymulliganwalsh.com.
Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”
Author of THE BLUE DRESS, a novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant w/body image & mother-daughter relationship struggles, published March 24, 2026, from Macmillan's FSG. Work in NYT, WashPo, NBC news, TODAY, HuffPost, among others.
Writer of 5 books including Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken. TEDx speaking coach. Weekly notes from my happy/sad life, along with media & book recommendations.
Writer in Detroit. Author of I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. New manuscript ready for querying. Illness in the House recounts my marriage, bookended by 3 years of home renovations and 3 years of terminal cancer.
Couples therapist for nearly fifteen years. Author of The Cost of Quiet (Penguin Random House). Now also enjoying podcasting, speaking, and doing radio and TV. I write about relationships, communication, and going after what you want in life.
Essayist/ Writing Professor at Antioch University. Publications; HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Manifest Station and more. Currently working on her memoir, I'll Show You.
Jacque Gorelick is an essayist who writes about family, motherhood, health, and estrangement. Her debut memoir, Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home, is forthcoming with Vine Leaves Press (February 2026).
A writer/editor/book coach with late-discovery ADHD and a fascination with the intersection of ADHD and creativity. Editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (ELJ Editions 2026)
I'm the author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women. I am also a therapist, a mom and a step mom. I'm passionate about reducing the shame and stigma of divorce.
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