I am proud to be a part of my community's Mental Health speaker series, creating conversations to remove the stigma of talking about...

Holidays are often painted as a season of joy and love. But for those who of us who were or are “unwanted,” the black sheep or the...

Listen to my recent book talk at the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, based on my memoir, Redeemed, a Memoir of a Stolen...

Great book discussion at Belvedere Tiburon Library   last night. Special thanks to Adam Sasso, Joey Della Santina, and Milos Petrovic...

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...

Interesting article on the difference between "ambition" and "workaholism." Hilary Frey says in her Slate article, "Workaholism is...

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...

Janet Robertson's "It Looked This Way to Me" is one of a growing number of memoirs published by non-celebrities, which is not the same...

A walk down Memory Lane... this is 45 Henry Street, the house I lived in in Linden, New Jersey, where I lived with my cousins and my...

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...

Bravo to my talented and creative friend Erica Filanc Tanamachi who directed a superb documentary which premiered at the CAAMFest, Center...

Memoirist Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic upbringing. She asks a timeless...

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...

Publishing a book as a new writer is an intimidating and vulnerable experience, especially when its memoir. Having a respected,...

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...

I am fine. Really. I am the over-achiever we all know and either love or hate, the one early for meetings, the one with a clean house, up...