Welcome!

I'm a writer, editor, singer, and psychotherapist. I write personal essays and I'm working on a 1960s memoir, Where Is Luv? A Teenager's Diary of Hope, Passion, and Total Confusion. When I'm not doing my own writing, I'm either editing other people's writing or seeing clients in my clinical practice. I also facilitate Write It Like It Is workshops and groups in the Greater Boston area and teach whenever I get the chance. Perhaps I missed my calling as a milliner, with all the hats I wear, but I enjoy the variety and look forward to connecting with you.

Register Now for Winter Classes in Arlington
 
Registration still open for "Creative Expression Through Writing," a brand-new, six-week class at the Arlington Center for the Arts on Wednesdays from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, beginning January 25. Space is limited. Catalog and registration information here.  

Also new! "YogaWrite," co-taught with Kim Childs, writer, musician, Kripalu yoga teacher, and popular facilitator of "The Artist's Way" workshops. Join us for an afternoon of gentle yoga and creative writing on Saturday, March 3, 2:00 – 4:30, at the Arlington Center. Full info here. Advance registration preferred. Please contact the Arlington Center directly.

Write It Like It Is Workshops

Full-Day Workshop, Saturday, March 10, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm in Newton

Experience the exhilaration of writing without censors, editors, or critics. Click here for details. Read what people are saying about Write It Like It Is.

Hot Off the Press

"November 22, 1963: Remembering JFK" was featured on the cover page of Salon.com on the 48th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination.

"The Game Changer," an essay about a twelve-year-old boy whose foster parents decided at the very last minute not to adopt him, appears in the fall issue of the literary journal Zone 3. Thanks to Amy Wright, Zone 3's nonfiction editor, for approaching me at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop last June and asking me to submit. Read my interview with Amy in The Review Review.

"Moon Fever: An Apollo 11 Flashback," which originally appeared on the cover page of Salon.com on the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing, was selected for inclusion in the anthology Perspectives on Modern World History: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (Greenhaven Press, 2011). Now available at Amazon.

Overview of Services

► Freelance editorial services, including proofreading, copyediting, rewriting, manuscript consultation

► Consultation services for new or established writers' groups: how to form, maintain, set goals, collaborate productively, work through interpersonal snags

► Private psychotherapy practice in Newton Highlands

Let's Get Mortified

Next appearance, Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 8:00 pm

► Since 2006, I've been a Boston cast member of Mortified, the comedy show where everyday people share their actual teen writings in front of total strangers. A couple of times a year, I read from my angst-ridden and molto hilarious teenage diaries at Club Oberon in Harvard Square.