Choose Freedom
On this Independence Day weekend, I thought about a trip to the beach, a round of golf, a BBQ. We are 241 years old, if you count from...
Inside the NYPD Bomb Squad
NYPD Bomb Squad stenciled on two massive garage doors compelled passersby to stop and stare at the command center of the most formidable...
Part 2 | THE IMPOSSIBLE ROAD TO PUBLISHING
Part II in a Series - What Now? Okay, so I have a story and I’ve written hundreds of pages of a first draft. What now? Although I was...
Part 1 | THE IMPOSSIBLE ROAD TO PUBLISHING
Part I of a Series Stories circled my mind since I was a little girl with a diary. At first they were amusing stories about...
LIFE DETONATED IS IN BUZZ BOOKS!!!
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I HAVE AN AGENT - RO LITERARY!
Tell me a story, my daughter would say when I tucked her in at night. I began telling stories I had forgotten until that moment. In the...
THE ATLANTIC NAMED MY NPR PODCAST TOP 50 OF 2015
In 2014 an excerpt of my memoir, The Widow and the Hijacker, went viral on Salon.com, coming in as the #3 story of the year. 2015 brings...
MY MEMORY OF MAYOR CUOMO
Mario Cuomo stood at the window of his offices on the 58th floor of One World Financial Center watching a tugboat stream along the Hudson...
HUFFINGTON POST FINALIST!
We crawled toward Yankee Stadium, traffic a nightmare, my kids in the car, everyone hungry and restless. I was sitting in the back where...
MANY THANKS TO SALON MAGAZINE
I’m published in Salon today. There’s no greater thrill for a writer than seeing her work published to so wide an audience....
