It’s been three months since my partner and I moved into our new home but, because I was travelling so much through the fall, it’s only in the past few weeks that I feel as though I really live here. Continue reading Settling in→

Turns out writing a book is just the beginning. Once that’s done, it has to get sold. I may have signed off on the final edits to “And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence” last Continue reading All about me→

Although the official release date for my book is just over a week away —  November 26th — copies of And Sometimes They Kill You are showing up on bookstore shelves, in newspaper articles, on television and in people’s hands. Continue reading Shameless self-promotion→

My partner has loved to grow things for longer than I have known him. When we first met, Peter had recently moved into the city from a small farm where he had raised livestock and grown food, with perhaps a Continue reading Ode to a garden — and its creator→