While in D.C. for meetings, my husband Joe and I visited my niece Megan and her three children—Sawyer (7), Cash (5) and baby Norah. As we...

Recently spent a couple hours with my Chapman friends brainstorming about degree programs that would integrate the arts into the social,...

An old proverb reminds us, “Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend.” Tonight I had the privilege of spending the evening...

Today (March 30, 2018) the White House announced my appointment to the Presidents Commission for People with Intellectual Disabilities...

I was thrown into the turbulent world of brain injury after my son was injured in a car accident in 1996. I quickly learned Brain Injury...

1. Train yourself to write anywhere. If not, you’ll find yourself sacrificing life for writing or not writing at all. 2. Set a minimum...

I started Chapman University’s MFA program at the age of sixty-two. On the first day, I loaded my computer, books, notebook, purse and...