Writing to get unstuck
When I’m not writing about video security cameras at my day job, I’m writing or blogging. I’ve recently been sharing my breast cancer story in a limited series of blog posts and on social media.
I started writing about motherhood shortly after my son James was born in 2002. My blog Mommy Musings became reflections and stories, celebrating motherhood, and its resulting conundrums. A labor of love and culmination of my best work, I released my first book in 2017: Mommy Musings: Lessons on Motherhood, Love, Life.
My work has been published in various publications, including Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Magazine, and Rochester Woman Magazine. I live in Rochester, NY with my husband, son, and our sassy boxer Star.
Recent posts
Art of Feeling Right
From Scribbles to Sparks My Field Notes are filled with scribbles and fragments that never made it into a finished story. Still, they matter.…
Beyond Healing: The Quiet Practice of Being Kind to Yourself
October always brings pink. Ribbons, campaigns, T-shirts — reminders of survival and loss, awareness and hope. I’m not against it. But every year, it…
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Done, Not Perfect: Writing, Hope, and Letting Go
From Stone to Soil: Letting Go of Perfectionism Perfectionism sits heavy in me, like a stone I keep trying to drop. Hard, unyielding, and…
Remembering September 11: Twenty-Four Years Later
Seven months pregnant, I shifted in my chair, trying to get comfortable with my changing body. A soccer ball-sized life pressed on my organs,…
Failing Better: Tennis, Writing, and the Long Game
When I stumbled across Thomas Swick’s recent essay on Lithub, Failing Better: On the Tennis Player and the Writer, I was immediately intrigued. The…
The monster inside
There is a quote from Seduction of the Minotaur by Anais Nin that continues to haunt me: “We do not see things as they…
