Over the past year—with the intention of bringing Eight Septembers: Woman on Wall Street into the public sphere—I have completed a number of manuscript assessments and professional edits designed to elevate my memoir to publishing standards. In the process, I have learned that the business of book publishing is much different than the craft of book writing. Here is some of what I discovered…
This weekend at the 125th anniversary celebration of the founding of Simmons University, I was awarded the first Florence Peggy Saslow Alumnae/i service award acknowledging my fifteen years as a Trustee. I joined the board in 2010 shortly after I retired from J.P. Morgan…
In memory of my father, J.W.A. “Doc” Buyers 7/17/28-5/20/06
It was like this:
He lay emaciated on the bed
What happened to my body?
I fed him ice chips…
My unpublished memoir was named a finalist in the memoir category of the 10th annual Maxy Awards! The contest is a fundraiser for the Home of the Innocents in Louisville Kentucky and funds raised are matched by Clinical Behavior Analysis…
This weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion at the Amelia Island Book Festival…
This is the 23rd season of the Amelia Island Book Festival, which celebrates the love of reading and supports literacy in Nassau County, Florida…
Sunrise is the best time for greeting the day
although I rarely see it…
For a good part of my life, I was dependent on external validation for my self worth. This put me at the mercy of others’ opinions, words, and judgments. It often left me trying to please people to gain their favor, at the expense of my own needs and desires…
Hello friends! While I have taken the summer off from blogging, things have been progressing nicely on my memoir project…
When I was ten years old, I came home from school to find dead kittens strewn across the lawn…
Part of my work, both personally and with clients, incorporates the use of constellations. Constellations are a somatic, or embodied, exercise that provide a systemic view of relationship dynamics. In other words, using people or objects, we create in three dimensional form a representation of a situation or circumstance in order to understand it better…
When you’re working on a memoir, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to tell your story—what to tell, how much to tell, and how to tell it truthfully…
People have been talking with me recently about the joys and challenges of parenting adult children. It requires a different approach from when they were younger. However, it’s not completely dissimilar, if our goal is to help them be confident, independent and self-sufficient…
In a recent writing class, our prompt was to experiment with different ways of telling a story by altering perspectives and tenses to play with distance between the writer and the reader. We were given specific voices and tenses to use. I had fun retelling this event from my childhood. Enjoy!…
PART ONE—Primary Issuance
Before I worked on Wall Street, I’d never really thought about government bonds…
A small group of us gather together each week on the second floor of The Book Loft, a charming independent book store on Centre Street in Fernandina Beach…
What is self-talk? It’s that constant stream of thoughts that weighs in on every external and internal event….
Once upon a time, in a land of commerce and trade, there lived a commercial bank….
