Category: author

  • Audiobook release of Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    Audiobook release of Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    My new short fiction audiobook is out now and free US review copies are available in a limited number.

  • How Not to Die of Lung Cancer

    Quitting smoking is only part of the solution. The day we found out my father had lung cancer, a neighbor had come by my childhood home upstate, but no one answered the door. The neighbor went on inside and looked around – none of us locked our doors out there in the country at the…

  • My Mother, My Daughters, and Breast Cancer

    My Mother, My Daughters, and Breast Cancer

    Genes cause cancer. But genes do not necessarily cause death from cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time of both hope and remembrance for me. Hope for a better future, and remembrance for my Mother. She died suddenly of metastatic breast cancer at about the time I was going to deliver my second baby daughter.…

  • Belinda, a Shelter Rabbit Adoption

    I adopted Belinda, a Dwarf Agouti female rabbit yesterday from the Manhattan ACC in Harlem. Hoping to adopt, I browsed the Animal Care Centers of NYC, ACC website every day for a month to look at all the rabbits, and I “hearted” Belinda early on. When I finally clicked on the “adopt me” button around…

  • Bunny Adoption Anticipation

    I clicked the box “adopt me” on the NYC ACC Animal Care Center site for a beautiful “boroughbred” rabbit right before the start of the New Year. Taking care of house rabbits was a delightful part of my life for about 5 years while we had Riley, our dwarf Hotot pictured below, and then his…