In 1987, I began my professional writing career in Evansville, Indiana, and in 1994 made the leap into full-time freelancing. Five years later, I moved to Tucson, Arizona, and am still writing today amid the beauty of the Sonoran Desert. Along the way, I’ve discovered how so much of what we might dismiss as ordinary has the power to transform us. It has been, and continues to be, a pleasure and an education to write about these things.

In addition to several hundred articles, I have written more than a dozen books and contributed to others. My first collection of personal essays, What I Thought I Knew, was released in September 2008 by Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc.

After my husband suffered a traumatic brain injury (and recovered well, for which we are thankful), I began facilitating journaling workshops for TBI survivors. Along with Susan B. Schuster, M.A., CCC-SLP, I wrote a journaling workbook based on those workshops. Titled After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, it is available from Barbara’s Books page and from Lash & Associates Publishing/Training. I also have a blog, Journal After Brain Injury, with information about journaling for people with brain injury and their family caregivers.

In July 2009, I became a certified instructor of Journal to the Self®,  a journaling workshop created by Kathleen Adams, founder of The Center for Journal Therapy. I am currently enrolled in the center’s Certified Journal Facilitator program.

See my resume here.