Talking

I love to sit quietly and write, but I also love to stand up and talk. I tell stories, and I give readings and workshops from my fiction, memoir and essays.

Below are some samples and ideas for programs, and three storytelling videos; if you want to talk to me about talking to your library, class or community center, just use the contact button on this site (or, click here).

• The reprise of Real People Real Stories, presented virtually from the Ancram (NY) Opera House to a national audience, updating the story I first told at the AOH five years before

• Workshops from “10 Scary Things” at Oasis San Diego and at Interim Health Care, San Diego

• “Go West Old Woman” in So Say We All’s VAMP storytelling program at the Whistle Stop Bar, San Diego

• Keynote speech from Riptides, on compassionate health-care communication, to communications students at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

• Multiple workshops on compassionate health care, based on Riptides, with communications and health-services students