Maps and a date got me started.

​As a kid books were an escape from my temperamental father and neurotic mother. Reading took me to a different world, sometimes adventurous, sometimes heroic, and sometimes melancholy.            Histories were my favorites. I absorbed maps and dreamed of the places...

What are some of the traits adult children of alcoholics suffer?

​Alcoholism is a multi-generational disorder, effecting even an alcoholic’s child/children. Isolation is perhaps one of the worst problems these young adults face. Kristen gets caught working on Christmas Eve, establishing a long-running joke at her firm, where nobody...

Kristen Kerry and Shakespear

​Those of you who have read Justice is for the Lonely know Kristen loves to quote Shakespeare. Her choice of English instead of pre-med as her college major was another act of defiance of her father, who expected her to become a surgeon like he was. You have probably...