writer, teacher, mother…and more - (m)other.
I love a good story.
That has taken many, many different shapes over the years - I have been an actress, a reality tv producer (please don’t hold that against me), a teacher, and a writer — even the subject of a children’s book! But these different parts of me all have one thing in common: telling stories.
I was raised in New York City by a single mother who was a radio broadcaster at 1010 WINS. I now live in Culver City, (where they filmed Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz — that’s important to my story). I live with my two sons, two dogs, two fish, and one husband. I write a lot about death and motherhood, you know, keeping it light. I love encouraging others to learn. I used to run regular writing groups for moms called Mommie Brain to help them document their experience of parenting. I had a newspaper column under the same name for a couple years. Currently my teaching looks mostly like coaxing my children to do their remote learning. I have plans and hopes (as most dreamers do) of creating a podcast, a bookstore, publishing house, and running writers’ retreats. Someday. And I still have the ever present (at least to me) little girl dream of singing and dancing on Broadway. Fairly certain, my tutu doesn’t fit anymore, but I am game if you are. There’s a blog in here too. That’s new, I realized not everyone I ever met and was on Facebook with wanted to hear every little minute thought I have. So I am launching She Blinded Me With Zients, because I always wanted someone to write an article about me and use the headline and since no one is writing articles about me at the moment, I’ll give myself the headline. I’ll chronicle whatever suits my fancy, but mostly my unschooling adventures, neurodiversity activism, and reading all of the books I can’t stop buying. I’ll focus on books by people I know. Proud of my friends and their accomplishments. Nothing I like more than tooting the horn of other artists.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my story. Happy to share your story as well, be that as a teacher or as a reader.
In fact, it would be my honor.