- Author of Memoir Writing in 6 Easy Steps.
- Teaches writing/memoir at UW Madison annual Writer's Institute,
- teaches 3 memoir online classes for UW Madison,
- teaches weekly three-hour writing class,
- edits and publishes Furrows: a literary journal twice a year which includes wonderful writing from rural writers in WI.
- Lived on the north shore of Chicago for many years was President of Off Campus Writers Workshop in Winnetka, IL (a non-profit hosting weekly lectures by various experts on writing, promotion, media),
- for two years taught creative writing/memoir/nonfiction/poetry in Vermont at the request of a publishing house managing director who was getting in so many manuscripts she could not publish because writers did not know how to write.
- for two years hosted a TV show call smalltalk etc. shown daily
