Brevity Blog:
The Road to Publication for a Writer of a Certain Age, August 5, 2024
Becoming a Writer in the Third Chapter of Life, May 17, 2022
Pulling Weeds and Telling Stories, July 27, 2020
Review of Leslie Leyland Fields’ Your Story Matters, June 5, 2020
Of Turtles and Fear: A Writer Faces the Mind-Killer, January 21, 2019
What Do You Want? Finding Your Essay Amidst the Well-Placed Nudges and Barks, August 29, 2018
The Perennial Gen:
Loving Our Neighbors (And Their Dogs) As Ourselves, April 8, 2022
History Keepers, March 2, 2022
Learning To Speak Forgiveness, February 4, 2022
Amen, and yet, January 1, 2022
Sharing Manna, November 3, 2021
I got to be my mother’s helper, October 5, 2021
And let it begin with me, August 31, 2021
Meeting One Another in the Middle of a Bridge, July 1, 2021
How we found love in our fifties, May 31, 2021
The Atheist and the Bear, April 27, 2021
Lead or be led, April 1, 2021
Anger and a gentle answer, March 1, 2021
A Different Top-Down, February 1, 2021
The Opposite of Certainty, January 6, 2021
It’s Never Too Late to Get Over Myself, July 9, 2020
The Gift of Menopause, September 25, 2019
Heroine and Human, March 7, 2019
What Creativity Feels Like, January 13, 2019
O Holy Night, November 30, 2018
The Optimist and the Pessimist, October 22, 2018
Building Retirement, August 5, 2018
The Sage Forum:
Introduction, On the Quest for Balance in Life, September 3, 2024
Wisdom Builds Her House excerpt, August 20, 2024
Listening to Trauma’s Echoes, May 31, 2024
Caring for our Aging Bodies and Minds, May 2, 2024
Rachel Weeping For Her Children, March 15, 2024
Making Joyful Noises, January 2, 2024
Walking into the World, July 13, 2023
Mentoring in the Second Half of Life, April 3, 2023
Searching for purpose at midlife? You’re not alone, November 1, 2022
Streetlight Magazine:
The Piano Lesson, 2021 Nonfiction Contest Honorable Mention, August 26, 2021
Quest for Our Fathers, Living Still, October 28, 2019
Cleaver Magazine:
Writing a Memoir Partly About a Person I Never Met, August 22, 2024
Huffington Post:
An Older Neighbor Asked For My Help. How Much Am I Supposed To Give Him? August 26, 2023
Please See Me:
The Three Graces, July 24, 2023
Women Writers, Women’s Books:
Where Are You?, August 20, 2024
Podcasts & Interviews:
Judy Allen’s Reimagining Retirement, Interview, January 18, 2024
Jacqui Just Chatters, a story about moving adapted from Wisdom Builds Her House, September 7, 2023
The Sage Forum, “Healing Old Wounds, Telling a New Story,” May 17, 2023
Lisa Lewis, Let Go Lean In Podcast, April 4, 2023