Change is coming As I finalize my upcoming book on health, wellness, and fluidly aging, I've been reflecting on the risks of authors changing subjects between books.  My first book was an intimate, first-hand account of surviving a major 7.0 earthquake. As a means of coping with the shock and trauma, I felt compelled to write about my experience as a form of self-therapy. I hoped to chronicle every detail that my senses could retain in the aftermath. It was an emotional, grip

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” — Graham Greene Writing has been a stronghold, a lifeline pulling me from depths since childhood. Words could always heal wounds that no first aid kit could mend. In a world with chaotic tendencies, writing’s therapeutic power to reveal our shared humanity should not be ove