2013 Write Your Memoir in Six Months, Intensive online workshop and individual coaching with Brooke Warner of SheWrites Press and Linda Joy Meyers of the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW)
2013 June 1: Writing Workshop, Craft Talk, and Reading, a daylong workshop with Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild, Petaluma, CA
2013 Goodreads Video Seminar with Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild
2009 – 2013 Writing a Spiritual/Healing Memoir, weekly participation in eight-week teleseminars September-June with Linda Joy Myers through the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW)
2012 Stories from the Heart, Story Circle Network (SNC) Sixth National Writing Conference, Austin, Texas
2012 Build Your Author Platform Mastermind Forum, a six-week webinar with Dan Blank, WeGrowMedia
2010 The Hero’s Journey for Memoir Writers, a six-week teleworkshop with Jerry Waxler (NAMW)
2009 Introduction to Memoir Writing, a four-week teleworkshop through National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW) with Linda Joy Myers
Education & Training
MA, Career Development, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA
BA, Women’s Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Certificate in Cross-Cultural Communication, Intercultural Communications Intensive Summer Institute, Portland, Oregon
2012-13 Modernize Your Resume & Writing Linkedin Profiles, Workshops with Wendy Enelow, the Resume Writing Academy
French and Hebrew Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Next, I pay attention to my surroundings: the iridescent green of a hummingbird whirring through the eucalyptus leaves outside my window. That enormous hawk I spotted sunning her creamy chest in the sun’s early rays high on a redwood spire. My mother always said she wanted to be a bird in her next life. Now I’m sure of it. I imagine her spreading her spirit wings at dawn, then nesting with them again at dusk. […]
Stories are like mushrooms. Who knows where they start or end? Perhaps you stumble across one on a walk in the redwoods at dusk after a spring shower has drenched the earth and the conditions are just right. The setting sun streaks the trees in glowing bronze. […]
