Welcome: My First Blog

Welcome to my newly redesigned Web site, and thanks to Tom Pimental whose quick and creative work has officially launched me online for the first time not only as a journalist but an author. It’s exciting and daunting. I’m a pretty private person for someone who has co-written a memoir. In fact, I was so shy as a child that I practiced saying “Hello, how are you?” sitting alone at the back of the summer camp bus. It’s been easier as an adult to hide behind the journalist persona, pen and pad in hand, asking about other peoples’ lives, refraining from sharing my own opinions and views, delving into cultures and worlds very different from my own. I still love that. But I also loved writing our book and telling stories that I hope resonate with others who also have found it challenging to Get A Life and Have It All and achieve any of these conventional mottoes that really stand in for personal happiness, love, truth, fulfillment, family, and friendship — all of which can come about in unconventional ways. Maybe we don’t get all of those things; maybe we get more of them. Sometimes they aren’t exactly what we expect; sometimes they exceed our expectations. And sometimes we are just left to wonder.