About

My memoir, White Wife/Blue Baby, is out from All Things That Matter Press! Order from your local bookstore or from Amazon.

Looking back over fifty years, my memoir focuses on two questions: how did I survive nurturing a dangerously ill baby girl, and how do Black people keep rage from eating into their hearts? My blog posts reflect on these as well.

I’m retired from teaching and managing college programs at Norwalk Community College, University of Bridgeport and UMass/Amherst. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I get energy from volunteering with SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). I started out as a poet, but when people told me my best poems were super-condensed family stories, I started writing prose about my past. Then I started teaching others to do the same, and for a few years taught memoir writing as Truth Be Told Memoir Workshops. But I had to stop for a few years and take my own advice: Write every day. Give your writing the time it needs.

I live in Connecticut with my husband and dog.