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  I’m so grateful for your support I want to give something back to readers who have given me so much. We’ve had such a wonderful time on this page.  We’ve shared stories of cookie exchanges, and the warm feeling that donating home-baked cookies provides.  We’ve shared cookie recipes, pictures from cookie exchanges and friends…. Read more

I’m a traveling writer who practices a disciplined routine. Now, the place changes, but time is constant. This is a result of the years I stole time and places to write while maintaining my practice as a psychotherapist and raising three kids. I wrote in between patients in my office. In the afternoons, I scribbled… Read more

Today, May 1, 2012, my book, A Gift for My Sister, was born.  Yes, the process is like a pregnancy except exxxtrrremmmelllly extended. Yes, there’s a burst of exaltation when it’s finally on stands in bookstores across the country, and “add to cart” buttons on online websites. So today my baby is finally out in… Read more

One of the great joys of family life is cooking together and then devouring all the yummy food you’ve made.  Creating as a family, encouraging the input and imagination of your loved ones, and then sitting down to eat, imparts a festive atmosphere to any meal.  Yes, some of us have specialties of things we… Read more

Sisters I was not raised with a sister, but my father had five and my mother had three.  These aunts, along with my mother’s lifelong best friend who married my father’s only brother, imparted flocks of family love and closeness. The sisters cooking together, raising children together, playing scrabble and bridge together, talking about ideas… Read more

I know we’ve had lots of fun on my Christmas Cookie Club page, but now I have a new page and I’d like you to join me .  So many new things are about to happen and so I’ve had to expand.  The mass market of my paperback is coming out in a few weeks;… Read more

A few days ago, during the afternoon rush hour, a tornado touched down a few miles from my home turning 100 homes into shreds.  I was working at my computer when I heard startling cracking sounds around me. The sky was dark, in the distance thunder rumbled and lighting splashed outside my office windows.  It… Read more

Kelp Forest I was in southern California walking the beach, writing, doing research for my next novel, visiting family and friends, and, I must confess, escaping the Midwestern dreary winter. As many of you know, I love to paint and make art.  It’s as much a compulsion, a passion, a way I breathe as my writing,… Read more

Once again the world comes comfortably closer around me, my fingertips reach across the oceans with a click here and there on my computer.  Once again a Christmas present comes from afar, this time from the northern corner of Switzerland and Italy in an email from a reader with a favor to ask: A couple… Read more

Here’s a sneak-peek at a recipe from A Gift for My Sister.   Tara and Levy, who is four, invented theses snowman cookies together for their first cookie club.  They started with a basic sugar cookie recipe. Cookies 4 cups sifted flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup unsalted butter 2 cups… Read more