I wanted to be a writer since I was a teenager. Since I wanted to write about "Life," I had to take time to live some of it! This I did by way of being a California Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Social Worker (2 licenses), which allowed me to learn not only about my life, but about the lives of hundreds of other people. When I started teaching and speaking publicly, that gave me thousands more from whom to learn. My first material was published in the early 1980's, when I was 40! I am author of a self-published series (The Bounce Back Series--how to Bounce Back from Anger and more...