I am a journalist, a memoir writer, a traveler, and a lover of morning coffee and evening Chardonnay. Born in New England, the fifth generation of my family to live in the same house, I have worked in New York City, Washington, D.C., Germany and Switzerland. I met my husband, a British journalist, while working at an international short-wave service in Europe, and we raised our two children in a small town in New Jersey.

Having once been a teacher, a bartender and a public relations flak, I am a risk-taker and believer in personal transformations. My late-in-life memoir is testament to that. I now live in a Vermont college town where my happiest moments are spent hiking, skiing and cuddling with my four grandchildren.