She’s a freelance writer who leans into her past as a psychotherapist while pursuing the truth about being human.
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The biography of a winning coach who transformed the lives of African American children in Aurora, Illinois, a Midwest city that wanted to remain innocent of racism. It is an American story of success against the odds, where a realized potential is stronger than the tidal wave of a community’s beliefs.
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Publication date February 9, 2026, by Koehler Books, Inc.
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Red-hot Anger in A Deep-freeze Climate
Watching videos of the Minneapolis protesters this week, bundled in ski garb, down coats and balaclavas, has me thinking metaphors. They are in a deep freezer, their red-hot anger packaged in cellophane. Because my own nose hairs freeze when I walk between back door and garage here in Illinois, I…
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Don’t Quit. Keep Going.
The White version of Black suffering remains stuck in victim-thoughts. When we hear stories of people made to suffer, we identify with their pain and mentally turn them into victims. We miss the point. Pain is the crucible that teaches us how to survive pain. There is no better example…
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Masked Men and Children
My friend Coach Walters says every child wants discipline. He means the firm hand of a trustworthy adult, someone telling them what is OK to do and what is not. Today the children of Latin families are learning instead the fear of masked men. Coach’s discipline is a feeling of…
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What Mr. Trump Doesn’t Know
Mr. Trump doesn’t know something about war heroes. A cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands, is proof. It is an undulating blanket of grass with over 8200 crosses and stars of David in lines at military attention. These were the American GIs who fought Nazis and died to free Northern Europe in…
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