Surprise, surprise! *Drum roll* I’m thrilled to announce the release of my memoir A Quiet Kiss.

Now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle, and Barnes and Noble! A Quiet Kiss can be purchased in paperback on the Barnes and Noble website! My local store will be carrying it, and I would greatly appreciate if my favorite readers would ask their stores to carry it as well! (And I can’t thank you all enough for your support, love and encouragement with my writing.)

This book has been something I’ve been quietly working hard on, and I’m beyond ecstatic to formally announce that it launched Tuesday, June 14!

From the back cover:

“I’ve felt the touch of magic.

It isn’t something unreachable, even if it is so often elusive.

It’s the breath of hot summer sun on my bare shoulders after a long winter, or the pouty lips my oldest daughter gets when she’s deep in thought, and she looks exactly like a superimposed image of her baby self. It’s the baby softly telling me she’s happy, with joyful light shining from her eyes into mine. It’s the feel of the man I’ve loved since I was fourteen giving me a kiss as he walks through our door after work.

Love is magical.

It feels wonderful, but a truly great love story has moments that need to be intentionally appreciated and captured before they’re gone; memories we wish we’d held on to.”

A bit more about this book:

A Quiet Kiss is a modern love story focused on the evolution of love, self-love, as well as contemporary parenting, motherhood and feminism.

A Quiet Kiss is narrated by a thirtysomething mother of two young children who has been with the same man for over two decades. Readers will laugh and empathize with her motherhood struggles, as well as with the difficulties of remaining passionate and in love when the relationship takes a back seat to diaper changes, school schedules and fatigue.

This insightful memoir is a reminder that the greatest love stories are ones that we intentionally create and cherish; stories that we are both more in control of nurturing than we give credit to on an everyday, living life basis, as well as ones where we lack the ability to predict and manipulate every turn, and so we must learn to bend with grace.

A Quiet Kiss is one woman’s gentle discovery of her own strength and self-love, while also encapsulating every contemporary woman navigating love, life and relationships.

Connect on social media for more news and on-going updates! Thanks so, so much, friends, for all of your support.

(Perfect for summer reading!)

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The Art of Parenting: Love Letters from a Mother is here—and now available at Barnes and Noble!

This book has been such a heart-work for so long that I cannot believe its release date has arrived.

But it has. And yahoo!

Purchase your copy, available also on Amazon in either paperback or Kindle form, by clicking here!!!  

Here’s a glimmer of what lies inside the pages of The Art of Parenting:

Parenting is the ultimate gift of inspiration, of struggle, of hilarity and of hope. This book is more than just a gift to my daughters—it’s more honestly their gift to me.

Children bring a crisp perspective to love and joy, and a raw fragility to what’s truly important in life.

And it’s difficult to take yourself too seriously when you constantly have an entourage in the bathroom with you, handing you toilet paper, or struggling to get past your precariously placed leg to chew on the toilet paper.

Actually, the fact that this book exists at all, while I’m down in the trenches of motherhood with two extremely active little ones, is a true testament to the inspiration of children; of spending day-in and day-out with them.

What you hold now in your hands is a little piece of my heart.

But this book is not only for my kids, it’s for you.

It’s for any grown-up who believes in love and second-chances, forgiveness and that it is true that the best things in life are free. Except that kids kind of do cost a lot of money. But they’re worth it. Here, just read this.

This book has been a labor of love and I’m overjoyed to announce that the lovely and wondrously talented Lynn Shattuck wrote the foreword.

Sneak look:

But this book would, quite seriously, not exist without Kate Bartolotta.

Her editing talent and ability to see a project from idea to fruition continually astound me as I work with her. She cheerleads me on just when I need it and she understands both my intentions and my concepts as a writer. I’m more grateful than I can convey that she was on board with me for this project, and for all of my projects—wink, wink, hint, hint for Christmas-time!

Please know: if you are reading this and, especially, if you are on my email subscription and have gotten this in your own inbox, then your support of my earnest work is already more than I can thank you for. After all, what is a writer without readers and, more, without people surrounding her who care? I thank you from the bottom of my soul.

I hope you’ll check it out and pass it along to your own loved ones.

Again, available in both paperback and Kindle form by clicking here!

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My labor of love is finally out in the world!

The Best Day of Your Life: A guide to transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary, is now available for purchase in paperback on Amazon and in Kindle form as well!

And here’s an exciting update: it’s now out at Barnes & Noble!

A brief description:

“Every day that we inhale a new breath and then let it back out is an opportunity to have the best day of our lives. That said, it’s not always this easy.

Life is challenging and complicated, yet we seek out positive expressions of ourselves and the world, like joy and serenity. We’re essentially healthy people trying to get through life with as much pleasure as possible. We seek to better ourselves and the world around us because, at our core, we want to live our best lives as our best selves.

But how do we do this? How do we have our best day when we’re feeling frustrated, heartbroken or a plethora of other emotions that swirl around a human experience?

This book offers a daily practice guide that doesn’t attempt to give you the answers to these questions, but, rather, the tools necessary to engage them on your own journey.

And some of these practices might surprise you. If you’ve picked up this book expecting a typical put-on-a-smiley-face-and-shove-down-uncomfortable-feelings manual, you won’t find that.

What will you find within these pages? Open it up and let’s begin…”

I’ll also be updating this post as new links go up. (So keep checking back.)

After you’ve given your copy a read, please review it on Amazon! Also, any inquiries about professional reviews can be sent directly via message on my Facebook page.

I want to send a sincere thank you out to every one of you who have encouraged and supported me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my happy, happy heart.

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