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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I’m the Only White Kid
Today’s children do not carry the baggage of racial myths in the way grownups do.
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A Book Teaches Its Author
Birthing a work changes a writer. The author delves into the truth of a book’s subject matter. The book, in turn, is laying bare the author’s own truths. As the White author of Walters Way: A Coach, His Runners, and His Race, about a Black hero, I lived into the…
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Navigating Privilege and Inequality: A Women’s Perspective
I don’t know about the men, but we women were taught to put ourselves in second place. We learned that caring, really caring about another, meant to always question our right to the good stuff. The bigger slice of pie belongs always to the other person. The Problem Now when…
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Fear is Not the Enemy
Fear is a mechanism designed to keep us safe, but, in excess, it becomes a source of danger. “Fear is not the enemy,” said our minister. Bingo, I thought. The Problem When we fight fear we intensify it, and fear becomes a road block against rational thought. It elevates destructive…
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