“I don’t know how I am going to face this next year,” a friend told me recently.  She is not the only one with a heavy...

That little toy war dog just keeps winning awards! Dear Friends, I am thrilled to share that my memoir When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf...

I am thrilled to announce that my memoir, When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew, is now available in audio format....

May the New Year bring the “miracle” you wish for. We walked with deliberate steps. Placed our feet with care on the slippery surface of the...

I have found one of the lovely surprises about growing old if you are lucky, is that you become  part of a web of friends, colleagues and...

A Mother’s New Year’s Wish and Intention  On December 31, 1960, I “missed a great New Year’s Eve party,” so my then-husband told me, because I...

It takes one person to tell her story. It takes a village to hear its meaning and give it wings. As we approach this North American Holiday...

Shining a Light (Published in Women Writers, Women‘s Books, August 27, 2019.) From the time that I was a little girl curled up on my father’s...

My memoir about my childhood in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during WWII was released on August 27.  But it’s not just my story.  It’s the story of every...

This week a daughter in Poway buried her mother, a victim of yet another vicious hate-fueled shooting on a House of Worship.  As we send cards and...

In a front page article entitled “School Shootings Leave a Long Trail of Trauma” the New York Times (Front Page: March 29, 2019) explores the lingering...

I am excited to announce that the book about my childhood in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during WWII was published by SheWritesPress in August of 2019. The story...