Read my poem in the Spring Edition of Please See Me. Poetry Editor Steve Granzyk, in his editorial letter remarks on the intentional open-endedness of the Magnitude 7.1 metaphor. Read and listen here: Magnitude 7.1 When the earthquake comes at …
Drop by and say hello at Booth #200 this weekend, Saturday April 23, at the LA Times Festival of Books all day. Returning to USC after a pandemic hiatus the last two years, the Festival of Books is a true …
House of Honesty © 2009 “It’s a beautiful day today. Is everyone here? Cathie, Katie, Baby, Tina, Cat? Where’s Cat?” Everyone but Cat spoke up and I felt a tug of worry. I wondered where she was. I searched inside myself, …
Fifty sounds like such a lot of years, and it is. I recall that ten years married seemed a lot, too—so full of deeply held feelings, and all the unknowns that are mostly all ordinary now. I consider the meaning …
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Photo by Morgane Le Breton on Unsplash “In unpacking precarious relationships, deaths, and more, Klatzker’s relationship with her psychotherapist is one that models seeing her as a whole person and not just the sum of her parts…” The Intima is a literary journal …
Dissociative Identity Disorder is the result of a child growing up with pain and conflict, abuse and neglect, an environment that prevents the natural integration of experiences into a single consciousness. Not integrating in this manner is an adaptation, keeping …
YOU WILL NEVER BE NORMAL on display for Mental Health Awareness Month at Village Well Books, Culver City. Today my first book, YOU WILL NEVER BE NORMAL, meets the world. I put my whole self into this memoir and I’m …
(Photo by Aram Sabah on Unsplash) The waiting is large as we count down to the book release date of May 4, silence in a void of stilled voices, anticipation and apprehension together, delicious and harsh, awaiting the launch of …
A good friend forwarded a NY Times story to me about the complicated grief following the death of abusive family members. She thought of me because of my book, You Will Never Be Normal, about living and healing with dissociative …