Recent Essays
“On Perseverance,” http://minervarising.com/perseverance-janet-garber/ June 2014 “Success Story,” http://writersweekly.com/success_stories/008625_06252014.html June 2014 “Yo, Ma. . .What Was I Doing Anyway?” Monkey Star Press anthology of Babysitters and Tantrums, 2016? “Nothing Lasts Forever,” Mamalode, January 2016 “Reflections on thirty years in human resources,” SHRM Online, February 2016, http://www.shrm.org/publications/hrnews/pages/this-hr-life.aspx “Guilt and Shame,”
Exiled in Paris
Working on second novel. My friend Priscilla says, Everyone loves a love story so I'm gonna back it up a bit. Whattya think? Young, raven-haired, impulsive Lucie, an independent American woman, a feminist even, meets Pierre one snowy night at an upstate NY grad school party. “You must be French,” she declares. (He proves it to her later.) Mesmerized, she can’t wait to cry mush and jump into his arms to be whisked away for adventures in faraway places. Obsessed with all things
Lovely review on Onlinebookclub.org
Melie Kohl is the Human Resources (HR) Manager at Axis Mundi Medical Centre. The book follows Melie as she tries to fix the hilarious and devious behavioural problems of the staff while avoiding her own problems. She is lonely, worn out and hiding a big secret.
The book presents an array of fascinating characters: the groping doctor, the terrorised secretary, and the rabid bulldog-like boss. Each character has an urgent problem and a desperate need of Melie’s skills that s
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