I’m excited that my story, Doris, is a finalist for the San Diego Decameron Project. It will be published in the anthology that is based on the theme of the current pandemic. Four San Diego organizations have collaborated to present this project: Write Out Loud, San Diego Public Library, La Jolla Historical Society, and San Diego Writer’s Ink….
Read MoreThe San Diego Central Library has honored me as their Author of the Month for November 2019. The committee selects one author each month from hundreds of authors and highlights their book and all of the author’s accomplishments….
Read MoreIt is my supreme honor to announce that the Provost of UCSD, Eleanor Roosevelt College (my alma mater) asked me to give the commencement speech at the graduation ceremony! It was an incredible night…
Read MoreExciting news! My book, A Few Minor Adjustments: A Memoir of Healing, just won Best Published Memoir at the San Diego Book Awards. Two years ago it won Best Unpublished Memoir. So wonderful to win in both categories. Feeling grateful for this whole journey….
Read MoreAbsolutely delighted that my memoir, A Few Minor Adjustments, was just announced as the 2019 Soul & Spirit Spiritual Book Awards Winner for the Best Real-Life Spiritual Story. What a beautiful honor!
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Read MoreAbsolutely delighted that my book, The Healing 100, was just announced by the 2019 Soul & Spirit Spiritual Book Awards as Highly Commended for the Best Healing Book. This is akin to receiving a silver medal in this category. I feel overjoyed for this honor!
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Read MoreThe Soroptimist International of La Mesa is having their 61st Annual Thanks-For-Giving Community Breakfast in which they will recognize community members who have made a difference in their own way. This year they are honoring female authors from the San Diego area, and I am one of their honorees….
Read MoreI'm honored to announce that my memoir, A Few Minor Adjustments, just won a silver medal in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards for best Autobiography/Memoir: Personal Struggle / Health Issues....
Read MoreI am truly honored to be a final nominee for a 2018 Women of Influence Award! The category I am a finalist for is the Author of Influence Award....
Read MoreWhat an honor that my memoir, A Few Minor Adjustments, was a Semi-Finalist in the prestigious William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. It is such an exciting feeling that my book placed in this fierce competition among such talented writers....
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