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A memoir of conversion, revised. I'm a New Englander, with all of a New Englander's deep-seated reserve. I'm also painfully shy; the two things don't always go together, but in my case they do. And so ...

Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

One of the findings that surprised me when I did my doctoral research on the personal challenges of high-achieving women was the lack of clear career direction these otherwise determined women had.¹ ...

I am a storyteller at heart. If you’ve read even a few of my blog posts, you can see this in the way I open my pieces. I always start with a story because people remember details better when they are ...