"Not many on earth who can slide between Lou Reed and Erma Bombeck and be this consistently funny." -Poe Ballantine
"Full of surprises, revelations, wild, wise connctions." -Naomi Shihab Nye
5/3/23: I no sooner got home from an April trip to Italy with a group of women writers, than I was compelled to write it all down. Four Gentlewomen of Cortona, Footloose and Gluten Free , on Fishbowl.