NAMW INTERVIEW WITH Kathleen Pooler 1. Tell us what you want to write about, or what you are working on: I am working on a memoir. The logline is:” nurse shares her faith-based journey through her son’s alcoholism and her own cancer diagnosis”. The main message I want to share is how I found hope through faith, growing through the pain and emerging empowered while learning how to live life on my own terms. No matter which way I look at it, my faith keeps emerging as the underlying source … [Read more...]

An Interview with February NAMW Member of the Month, Martha Sarkissian Linda:  Tell us what you are working on. Martha: My memoir begins when--at the age of eighty--I developed the courage to enter personal therapy.   I once believed that the brain could not change, making seniors poor candidates for therapy.  Now, in the twenty-first century, I learned from scientific research about the plasticity of the brain. For fifty-three years, I lived for my husband, Hal.  After he died, the life … [Read more...]

Debra Sanders An Interview with NAMW Member of the Month, Debra Sanders Linda:  Tell us what you want to write about, or what you are working on.   Debra: There are several projects I'm working on and that I would like to tackle, but none so much as writing the story of Kristy—a student I had when she was thirteen whose parents took her out of school and kept locked up so that we had no access to one another. When she was 18 she escaped and spent the next 11 years searching for me, but there … [Read more...]

***NEW--Listen to an exclusive Interview with Robin*** The Beauty of Books I came to be an artist as part of surviving an extremely abusive childhood. Silence was mandatory. The denial of my being in the presence of others, I hoped, might stop the abuse, bring love instead. I came to express myself silently in any way I could. My mother was an artist, and my first art lesson came early in life. I drew and painted and wrote profusely what I was not allowed to express verbally. Nature … [Read more...]