I always wanted to write a book. For years, I have worked with youth as a teacher and coach. My passion is empowering young people, especially boys, to reach their full potential in education and in life. My dream is to see people live uncommon in a common world—to live a life of purpose and […]
Persistence is Paramount to Success I’m in my late 60s and published my first book when I was 58. In grade school, I loved to write poems and at camp and college penned long letters to friends. I enjoyed writing and hoped to some day write something worthwhile that would be published. I’m a psychotherapist […]
Nothing Ventured…Nothing Gained I had dreams but I had to be practical. I majored in computer science so I could get a good paying job. I loved programming and designing computer systems, but I still longed for the day I could pursue what I really wanted to do—be an artist and author. I always loved […]
Think of Perfect Moments I was 42 and no one’s idea of an athlete when I bought Eli, my first horse. He was six, and no one’s idea of a beginner’s horse. He was a Thoroughbred—a racehorse—who’d been brought to the barn, where I’d been taking lessons, as a prospect for somebody else. The racehorse […]
Setbacks win awards As a youngster I always dreamed of being a writer. I wrote stuff, got pretty good grades in English, and then at 21, joined the U.S. Air Force. My writing went on hold for nearly two decades. Then, one year after a particularly painful ankle surgery, I decided to pick up my […]
It is never too late to revive a dream When I applied for a job as a writer for Good Housekeeping (Hearst Corporation) in New York in 1961, I was required to take a typing test. I was piqued because I wasn’t applying for the typing-pool, I was applying for a post as an editorial […]
Crusading Novelist I always dreamed of being a writer, but work and family responsibilities got in the way. When I was 45 and my husband said, “I just saw there’s a writers’ workshop at the library, and I know you’ve wanted to write since you were a kid. You should go for it now!” So […]
Blindness doesn’t deter dreams In 1970, while a Sergeant in the Army, I was shot in the head during a combat mission in Vietnam. It left me with bullet fragments in my head and severe migraines. Twenty-three years later, in 1993, the fragments caused a stroke in my visual cortex, leaving me suddenly and legally […]
