I write this newsletter to take the hard lessons I’ve learned and am still learning to inform the choices you make and help you live more authentically.

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Every Tuesday, you’ll receive stories and insights about 

  • The magic and challenges of life

  • End-of-life issues I learned in my 40 years years as a bereavement counselor

  • The frustration of being a human in the 21st century

  • And more…

Who Am I?

Now that’s a good question. Still working on it as I evolve through this life.

Here are a few things to know about me:

I was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California, between MGM and 20th Century Fox Studios. I was fortunate to live on a block filled with kids to play with. I believe we all saved each other from the lives some of us were leading inside our homes.

My first careers were in law: I was a legal secretary then one of the first litigation paralegals in a major Los Angeles law firm. Ultimately, law wasn’t for me, although the knowledge learned sometimes comes in handy.

After owning my own business for a few years, I returned to school and got a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis on death, dying, and bereavement. I counseled my first grieving client in 1985 and am still working, although on a modified schedule. I love this work. People often wonder how I could do something so sad. I tell them that I am fortunate because I get to be with people during the worst time of their lives and to learn as they find ways to live their best life despite and because of what has happened to them.

A late bloomer, it wasn’t until I was in my 60s that I was able to fulfill a lifelong dream by writing and publishing my award-winning book, The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love At the End of Life. I continue to love writing, having completed a new, and as yet unpublished memoir about finding love where I never thought to look.

I adore writing my Substack newsletter. I’m always surprised by what I write but trust the saying, No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

I found the right person for me 21 years ago, and four years later married my current husband when I was 58. . Through our relationship, I finally discovered what it means to love and be loved by another person.

I currently live with my third husband and fourth Golden Retriever in a home filled with kindness, courtesy, laughter, and much love.

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Bereavement Care Specialist, and award winning author of The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love at the End of Life. Still learning, growing, and trying new things. Every day is a new adventure.