
My memoir, What to Believe, is about secrets, suicide, and the power of denial. Each week I'll publish another chapter. Between chapters, I'll write about mental health, grief, resilience, and hope.
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For a brief moment when my mother’s Parkinson’s disease progressed to the point where she could no longer live independently, I missed my father in a way I’d never experienced in the nearly 40 years since he’d died.
“If Dad were still aliv...
I don’t know what rock I was hiding under at the end of 2025, but somehow I missed All Her Fault, one of the hottest shows of the late fall/early winter season. I stumbled across it last week, and based on the title and a brief glance at th...
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Even if I had $6.2 million, I would not have used it to buy the banana duct-taped to a wall. However, I did spend €3.50 on a magnet.
Remember a few years ago when a Chinese crypto-billionaire spent $6.2 million to buy a banana that an arti...
I am not the target audience for Off Campus, Amazon Prime’s hit new show based on the best-selling hockey romance series by Canadian author Elle Kennedy. I’m 65, which I believe puts me in the Masterpiece Theatre demographic.1 But after wat...
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I'm an ex-pat American in Canada. I write about physical and mental health, culture, books, and whatever captures my fancy (also, whatever editors are willing to print/pay for). I'm here to share more of my writing and learn what others are up to.
Professional Romantic. CHECKING YOU OUT (Wednesday Books, June 2026). Repped by Ariele Fredman at United Talent Agency. Mom to twins + adopted pugs + cats. \ud83c\udff3️⚧️ally. she/her
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.
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