My Books

Honest stories about enduring love, memory, forgiveness, and the quiet journey of finding our way back to ourselves—told through memoir, essays, and poetry.

This Time, I Stayed: A Memoir of Enduring Love
Now available online.

A story about returning—to love, to truth, and to the woman I was always becoming. It’s a memoir of sacrifice, long-distance love, healing, and the courage to choose a life that feels like home. A story rooted in endurance, tenderness, and rediscovery after thirty-six years apart.

Staying Was the Easy Part: A Memoir of Two Lives, Two Countries and Finding Home
Working title — currently writing

You asked for a sequel to This Time, I Stayed. I'm writing it.
The story continues, in a life lived between two countries.

The Quiet Work of Becoming: Essays on Love, Healing, and Transformation
Currently in editing

A collection of deeply personal essays about love, forgiveness, motherhood, grief, aging, identity, the body, and the quiet work of becoming. Reflective, intimate, and emotionally honest, these essays explore what happens when a woman begins to look back at the life that shaped her—and recognize the woman she has become.

The Me No One Knows
Planned release — TBA

Poems rooted in the beauty of everyday life—childhood memories, womanhood, solitude, love, loss, and the soft miracles hidden in ordinary moments.
A companion to the essays, offering a quieter, distilled expression of the heart.