Welcome!

I am delighted to have so many visitors to my web site.

1- Please email me if you'd like to be on my mailing list. I am finishing a new book, and I would love to get in touch with you when it's heading for book stores.

2- Since Detour was published, I have been a guest lecturer at over seventy universities and organizations across the country. I am currently booking lectures for 2010--and I hope you'll soon bring me to your neck of the woods to speak. You can email me, or click on Speaker above to get more info and read testimonials from people who have booked me before. In the coming year, I have speaking engagements in Livingston, New Jersey (03/03), Santa Cruz, California (03/12), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (03/17), Worcester, Massachusetts (03/23), Mt. Holyoke College (03/31), Amherst College (04/01), Ventura, California (05/05), Santa Clara, California (05/07), Atlanta, Georgia (6/28), and San Francisco, California (7/23).

3- I will be teaching an online memoir class in April. Please email me for more information!

4- I blog for Psychology Today. Check out my latest entry here!

5- And I'm also a freelance travel writer, specializing in the far flung. Check out a recent clip here!