My interest in writing began when I returned to school for a graduate degree at the age of 46. The Master’s program in Dance/movement therapy required weekly self-reflection papers—very different than the research papers I was required to turn out as a history major, many years earlier.  And I discovered I really enjoyed writing them.

A few years later, when I was contemplating a move to western Massachusetts, I happened upon a book while I was visiting in Amherst, a memoir written by Genie Zeiger.  I couldn’t put it down. Genie—I was told by the man at the checkout counter—taught writing workshops in Shelburne. It took me another year to write to her. And then, from 2005 until Genie died four years later, I attended the weekly Thursday writing workshops in her home, part of a group of ten women, many of whom had already written with her for many years. Those years were life-changing, as I discovered the stories that had been incubating quietly inside me since childhood.

As the old stories were loosened, new stories were discovered.  And a memoir is slowly taking shape. In the meantime, some poems and short non-fiction pieces have been submitted and accepted for publication.

Links to
published work

“Broken Bones” and “Under Construction (A Self-Portrait)
The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology published by the Monadnock Writers Group

”Refuge”
Straw Dogs Writers Guild

“Shofar” and “Alenu”
Words from the Heart: Multi-faith Prayers, Poems and Blessings
edited by Rabbi Deborah W. Smith