This Is the Author

"There are many field guides for the songs of birds, the songs of crickets, there are no guides of the songs of trees. So I wanted to go sit and listen to all the incredible different sounds that emerge from trees that echo within their wood and to share some of that experience with readers and get beyond the experience and into the stories behind them."

"My book is about dictionaries and about the English language and the people who write dictionaries and about people who use the English language. I wrote the book out of my experiences as a lexicographer, which is a writer and editor of dictionaries and because the more you do lexicography, the more you find out about English, and English is an amazing language, even though it drives people up the proverbial wall."

"My book is about dictionaries and about the English language and the people who write dictionaries and about people who use the English language. I wrote the book out of my experiences as a lexicographer, which is a writer and editor of dictionaries and because the more you do lexicography, the more you find out about English, and English is an amazing language, even though it drives people up the proverbial wall."

"My little book is called Is It Evil Not to be Sure and it is a collection of remembrances, creative ideas and teensy diary entries from a year of my life in college. I didn’t know I was writing a book when it happened, it was just my way of staying connected to myself through a really challenging period in my life and when I went back and looked at it later, I felt like there was a collection there that was at least maybe make people laugh and possibly inspire women, other people to record their lives because I found it to be such a soothing and important exercise and rereading it has been powerful to me."

"My little book is called Is It Evil Not to be Sure and it is a collection of remembrances, creative ideas and teensy diary entries from a year of my life in college. I didn’t know I was writing a book when it happened, it was just my way of staying connected to myself through a really challenging period in my life and when I went back and looked at it later, I felt like there was a collection there that was at least maybe make people laugh and possibly inspire women, other people to record their lives because I found it to be such a soothing and important exercise and rereading it has been powerful to me."

"My book Crazy Is My Superpower is essentially about female empowerment. I wrote my book because as a little kid I promised myself I would. Anytime there was some sort of hardship in my life I sort of just told myself it was happening so that I could pass the lesson along one day. And as I got older I noticed that it kinda became essential that someone started speaking out on these topics I didn’t think I’d be brave enough to speak out on my own.”

"My book Crazy Is My Superpower is essentially about female empowerment. I wrote my book because as a little kid I promised myself I would. Anytime there was some sort of hardship in my life I sort of just told myself it was happening so that I could pass the lesson along one day. And as I got older I noticed that it kinda became essential that someone started speaking out on these topics I didn’t think I’d be brave enough to speak out on my own.”

"My book is about mercy as the answer to almost all questions and problems and the way home to peace and to getting to become the people we were born to be. I was inspired because I felt this country and world are starving to death for truth and laughter and a reminder that kindness and grace that last, all evidence of the contrary."

"My book is about mercy as the answer to almost all questions and problems and the way home to peace and to getting to become the people we were born to be. I was inspired because I felt this country and world are starving to death for truth and laughter and a reminder that kindness and grace that last, all evidence of the contrary."

"My book is about food and family, and how food either does or sometimes doesn’t hold families and friends together. At the center of the book is my mom who really led an extraordinarily and interesting and passionate and inspiring life. She was connected to food her entire life, her family owned a famous restaurant on the LES of NY called Ratner’s…”