Portfolio / Selected Clips
The Washington Post
I won clown contests as a kid. It didn’t win me friends, but it showed me I could do anything.
AARP's The Girlfriend
How I Got Married For The First Time After 50
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By realizing my family's history was thwarting me.
The Boston Globe Magazine
On Our Wedding Day, My Watch Stood Still
My husband and I married when I was 53 and he was 61. We knew we wouldn’t get to have and to hold one another for the same “forever” my sister and brother-in-law had already enjoyed for 39 years of marriage.
Shondaland
Why I Searched for Love in Thrift Store Aisles.
AARP's The Ethel
How These Dynamic Women Won the Ms. Senior America Pageant
AARP's The Ethel
What My Older Cats Taught Me About Love
When my husband and I married he agreed to a package deal. I came with two middle-aged cats I had adopted long before our wedding.
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Lunch Ticket
As I unpacked boxes of my father's artifacts during a pandemic housekeeping project, it prompted me to hold him accountable for his transgressions, and consider forgiveness.
Hi Dad,
When you died, I figured there wasn’t any point in writing to you. But since the world broke down last year, everything has shifted, including how I want to communicate with you.
Hippocampus
How Writing in Community Rocked My Writing
​Orange Coast Magazine
Why Turning 60 During the Pandemic Was No Biggie
Washington City Paper
Both Sides Now: Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen at Signature Theatre
Washington City Paper
Understudies: The Unsung Superheroes of D.C. Theater
​The Women Who Submit Breathe and Push blog
My Action Partner—A Thoughtful Witness
AARP's The Ethel
How to Reclaim the Art of Handwritten Cards
My parents modeled the pleasures of exchanging heartfelt letters, so perhaps I was destined to stash away many of the beautiful cards I've saved since childhood.
​Washington Writers' Publishing House
I Could Care Less
In this essay, I entertain the idea that the business of caring too much is merely clickbait I haven’t been able to resist. I wonder what would happen if I swapped in my over-developed fretting skills.
The Baltimore Sun
A cease-and-desist letter for cicadas? A Nextdoor community takes on the noisy nuisances
Eat, Darling, Eat
What Mom Didn't Cook
Medium's PS I Love You
A Nun and a Pop Star: How I’m Making it Through the Pandemic
In these uncertain days of the pandemic, I have found an unlikely pair of spiritual guides to help me through it: American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön and Madonna.
Medium: In Fitness And In Health
Combating Pandemic Stress-Eating with Overeaters Anonymous
LA Weekly
Robert Johnson: Lawman of the Cloth
Not many people get credit for both busting cabbies and saving souls. Robert Johnson does.
Huffington Post
Showing Some Love for Local Government
Op-ed celebrating the bureaucratic heroes of local government.
​North Hollywood Patch
Yoga Studio Reinvigorates Former Dutton's Books Building
Who says the fried chicken and fitness crowds can't happily coexist? Certainly not the people at InYoga Center in Valley Village.
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Candy Conery is a woman who has run her hands through Elvis’ hair. And John Wayne’s.
Someone overhearing stuntwoman Julie Michaels’ morning send-off of
her husband, stuntman Peewee Piemonte, might be thrown for a loop --
or a triple flip in a speeding car.
​The Burbank Leader -
LA Times Community News
Keeping Things Warm
The warm-up comedian for the TV show Frasier deftly navigates comedy, even soon after 9/11.