When Leah Lax was asked to write a libretto for an opera intended to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening to the stories of upheaval, migration, and arrival, told to her

Growing up as a girl in the 1950s girls were not expected to have any career goals. They were going to be housewives. Susanna Solomons mother complained bitterly about her lot in life. Her father t

Kathryn Abdul-Baki was born in Washington, DC, to an Arab father and an American mother. In addition to her bi-cultural immediate family, she had a globetrotting childhood, growing up with dramatic ch

Donna Stoneham and her mother found a special closeness in the end of Mary Ruths life. Theirs had been a relationship fraught with challenge throughout most of their shared lifetime but in her mother

Jennifer Marshall experienced four psychiatric hospitalizations within five yearstwo before any diagnosis was reached, and two more because she was trying to protect her son during her own postpartum

As a follow up to her memoir Poetic License which came out in 2020, Gretchen Cherington dug deeper into family myth and lore, resulting in her new memoir The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall GuyA

Nicki Traikos has been an artist at heart her entire life, though in her early career she thought she had to choose a more practical and profitable way to earn a living. But her creative self found

Christy Warren is a retired fire captain/paramedic from the Berkeley, California Fire Department, with 25 years of service as a first responder. In 2014, she was diagnosed with PTSD and struggled thro

Small in stature, large in presence, and always in charge, Joanne Greene anchored the news and hosted talk shows on San Francisco radio while totally devoted to her familyuntil a traumatic accident s

Margo Fowkes is the mother of two children Jimmy, forever age 21, and his younger sister Molly, who is now 26. After Jimmys death in 2014, Margo created Salt Water, a blog and online community that