It's a strange instrument, this heart we cannot see. How it carries what we need to live, but not what we need to love--for that is carried in our soul. - AJW

Recent Events and Pubs

• • Follow my blog at Substack.
  • Lloyd Library and Museum Writing Workshop - Feb. 26.  The Forest Calls Us to Write.
  • FREE: Caregiver's Writing Experience (online) - Sponsored by Giving Voice, Thursday, Feb 17, 1-3 p.m. 
  • Hospice of Cincinnati Healing our Losses - March 12th, 9-12. Details forthcoming.
  • Walking Cincinnati's 52 - Cincinnati Magazine, September, 2021.
  • How Listening Can Improve Your Health -  nextavenue.com.
  • What Trees Teach Us about Dementia - Promedica Balance.
  • Brain Health and Handwriting, 3rd Act. March, 2021.
  • Caring in our Own Words - A Writer's Journal available through Giving Voice Foundation.
  • 'My Father's Way with Fennel - Still Point Arts, December, 2020. Page 64.
  • Follow all my publications on Authory.
  • Cincinnati's Museum Center accepts The Before of Over-the-Rhine for permanent collection on 2020 pandemic.
  • Listen Now to Failing Forward - The Podcast about falling down, and rising up.
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  • Now in audiobook at the following: Audible - 24Symbols · Apple iTunes· Bookmate· Chirp· eStories· Google Play· Rakuten/kobo
  • Named AlzAuthor in March, 2020.
  • Watch NOW on FOX 19
  • Available through Amazon & other online retailers. In ebook too.
  • Selection of: Cinci Books by the Banks, Ohioana Book Fest, Mercantile Library.

Latest Release

I'll Have Some of Yours

• "This sharp, poignant memoir delves into what it means to move beyond caregiver toward a deeper connection." - The Mercantile Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  “A must-have for your personal and professional library…see how family members and professional staff work together to create a meaningful life for persons with dementia. An important book.” 
  "Annette captures the complex emotions common to many families faced with this disease...a touching personal narrative and example of unwavering commitment and love of family.”