She’s a freelance writer who leans into her past as a psychotherapist while pursuing the truth about being human.
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The biography of a winning coach who transformed the lives of African American children in Aurora, Illinois, a Midwest city that wanted to remain innocent of racism. It is an American story of success against the odds, where a realized potential is stronger than the tidal wave of a community’s beliefs.
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Publication date February 9, 2026, by Koehler Books, Inc.
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Masked Men and Children
My friend Coach Walters says every child wants discipline. He means the firm hand of a trustworthy adult, someone telling them what is OK to do and what is not. Today the children of Latin families are learning instead the fear of masked men. Coach’s discipline is a feeling of…
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What Mr. Trump Doesn’t Know
Mr. Trump doesn’t know something about war heroes. A cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands, is proof. It is an undulating blanket of grass with over 8200 crosses and stars of David in lines at military attention. These were the American GIs who fought Nazis and died to free Northern Europe in…
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Ms Democrat and Mr Republican in Therapy
If I could, I would bring the warring exes of our broken national marriage into my old family therapy office. With a sofa and stuffed chair safely parted by a coffee table, it was a burrow where dark secrets could reveal themselves without fear of public exposure. First I would…
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Thought Viruses
Nancy taught me her term, thought virus, when she described the unique groove of her childhood. She grew up under two opposing influences.
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