After a thirty-five year career in business I revisited my passion for writing. Ten summers were spent at Centrum, Tin House Writers workshop and Stonecoast where I studied with such notables as Al...view moreAfter a thirty-five year career in business I revisited my passion for writing. Ten summers were spent at Centrum, Tin House Writers workshop and Stonecoast where I studied with such notables as Alan Furst, Dorothy Allison, Abigail Thomas, Ann Hood and Valerie Miner. FIRST LOVE, LAST DANCE is my first book ... a memoir about my mother, Elise, who fell in love for the first time at 19. Peter was his name. She became engaged to him at 21 but didn't marry him until she was 75. This book and story has been embraced by NBC in several cities and also CNN. That was lucky.view less