Publications
The Magic of Memoir – “What is it About Memoir”
Included in "The Magic of Memoir” - Linda Joy Myers PhD and Brooke Warner.
The Magic of Memoir is a memoirist’s companion for when the going gets tough. Editors Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner have taught and coached hundreds of memoirists to the completion of their memoirs, and they know that the journey is fraught with belittling messages from both the inner critic and naysayers, voices that make it hard to stay on course with the writing and completion of a book.
In The Magic of Memoir, 38 writers share their hard-won wisdom, stories, and writing tips. Included are Myers’s and Warner’s interviews with best-selling and widely renown memoirists Mary Karr, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dr. Azar Nafisi, Dani Shapiro, Margo Jefferson, Raquel Cepeda, Jessica Valenti, Daisy Hernández, Mark Matousek, and Sue William Silverman.
This collection has something for anyone who’s on the journey or about to embark on it. If you’re looking for inspiration, The Magic of Memoir will be a valuable companion.
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Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming Leadership “Deeper Power”
How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question–and forever changes the traditional notions involving women in leadership. The book features the accumulated wisdom of 40 influential men and women who represent the most compelling voices in the field, including:
Dynamic business leaders such as Eileen Fisher (founder, Eileen Fisher, Inc.), Barbara Corcoran (founder and chairman, The Corcoran Group), and Pat Mitchell (president and CEO, PBS)
Trailblazing women from other arenas such as politics (Ambassador Swanee Hunt), the military (Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer, USN), and sports (U.S. Olympian Marilyn King)
Renowned thought leaders such as Riane Eisler, Rayona Sharpnack, Sally Helgesen, Peggy Klaus, Bruce Patton, Nancy J. Adler, and Gail Evans
Leading-edge academics, activists, executives, entrepreneurs, and practitioners.
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Beyond Queer Words – “Belonging”
This is a story of growing up gay in a fundamentalist Christian family in the 1960s and navigating a new family with a woman and two children. One of them suggests that the protagonist and her mom get married (something unimaginable in 1978) It speaks to the innocent observations of a child juxtaposed with the norms of the day and the need to belong. This excerpt was first published as a chapter in her memoir, You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties, and then in The Advocate in October, 2017.
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Across the Margin – Bouquet for America
“This is America, where a makeshift memorial pops up yet again to mark the violence that stalks us all.” A botanic meditation on America’s troubling love affair with guns. It was written after the shootings on the MSU campus and speaks to societies inability to choose life over weapons of destruction.
“The Leaving,” in Bending Genres
Reflections on loss and finding peace
Meta Worker - “Rubies”
A memory of innocent love between two women in a time when being gay was against all religious doctrines and all social norms. The reader wonders if her college love ever loved another woman.
Brightflash – “Traded In”
The promise of love and the discovery of betrayal. The protagonist gets involved with a married man who leaves his wife to be with her and then leaves her while on a vacation to be with another woman he met at a wedding right before their departure
Hippocampus – “The Last Ride”
Who holds your life-time of memories when your best friend of forty-four years dies? A story of love, identity and loss on an ambulance ride to the Hospice Center.
Discretionary Love
Discretionary Love - "Thinking of You”
Reflections on the passing of a parent.
Litbreak – “Disappearance”
When you know there is no return to the way things were. You can sense the loss through the silence until all but is left is two people passing each other while still living in the same house.
Bluebird Word – “Lucky Girl”
A photo brings to life the realization that we have no idea what is ahead for us in life. This piece reveals the unexpected and the beautiful as we travel our path and how we are only limited by our imaginations.
HerStry – “Friendship Lost and Found”
Childhood best friends reunite after fifty years and discover that the power of love and connection can last beyond distance and time.
Witcraft - “Sloth” Coming September 2024
How to do nothing and make it look like an effort.
Story Circle Network “The Dance of Attraction”
Two women meet at a workshop and are wildly attracted to each other. Both have partners and are in unsatisfying relationships. What to do?
The Huffington Post – “The Last letter”
A heart-felt letter coming out to my father after he passed away.
Academy of Heart and Mind – “Hijacked”
A story of young love and dashed expectations.
Advocate – “Starting a Gay Family in the ‘70s
Detroit Free Press – 7 Questions with a Gay Fundamentalist Christian Who Grew Up in the 1960s
Living Better 50 – “80 Trips Around the Sun
A tribute to my mother in her 80th year – a surprise birthday party and celebration of her life. People come to share stories of her life and the difference she made in theirs.
“Writing is really a way of thinking—not just feeling—about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.” - Toni Morisson