Interviews & Essays
Here you’ll find conversations and published essays on family estrangement, forgiveness, self-reflection, purpose, and starting over. The five themes below run through this work; any interview or essay may touch on more than one.
When Our Adult Children Walk Away with Dr. Janet Steinkamp
I’m grateful to Dr. Janet Steinkamp for inviting me onto When Our Adult Children Walk Away.
Her show explores family estrangement, communication, and respectful boundaries, and I appreciated the thoughtful questions she brought to our conversation.
We talk about how trying unfamiliar things at fifty helped me practice courage for life's harder questions. We also discuss ambiguous loss, the stories we carry from childhood, listening, and taking responsibility for our own part.
Life, Loss, and Starting Again on WITF’s The Spark
I’m grateful to Asia Tabb and WITF’s The Spark for inviting me to talk about 50 Things at 50.
We talk about growing up along the Susquehanna River, what Lancaster County and Chickies Rock still mean to me, and how listening to people shaped the way I understand the stories we carry.
The conversation follows the book from fifty new experiences into the questions underneath them: how we speak to ourselves when life changes course, and how we begin again in Midlife.
Published Essays
Published in October 2026 · Tiny Buddha
A personal reflection on how old beliefs can shape the relationship patterns we accept, and the question that helped me look honestly at my own part.