Like every girl in my generation, I dreamed of being Nancy Drew. And I achieved that dream. No, I didn’t track criminals in my fabulous roadster, but, as a quality assurance leader, I did spend 24 years chasing down answers to poor quality of care and institutional neglect in services for troubled teens. Lotsa head-scratching detective work among the cobwebs of creaky institutions.
But, secretly, I longed to be the Nancy Drew author Carolyn Keene. I started writing my Nancy Drew knock-off at age 11, but apparently no one thought I was more...