One afternoon in the spring of 1972, a Mack truck sped through a residential intersection and collided with a station wagon carrying a young girl and her friend on a ride home from school. The accident shattered the girls’ realities. A blanket of silence fell over them until they reconnected at their twentieth high school reunion. That conversation set me on a twenty-year, reflected in seven springs, that reunited me with my past, my self and what I now understand as faith. My memoir, Seven Springs (Shanti Arts), is scheduled for release on May 6, 2021. Stay posted for details by subscribing to my blog or following me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn!

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A tandem bicycle ride in the Netherlands becomes a metaphor for long-term relationships. “Tandem Thoughts” is one of 25 essays anthologized in Chicago Storytellers: From Stage to Page (Chicago Story Press). 

Essays on raising daughters and balancing womanhood with motherhood.

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“As a reviewer of books for the Chicago Tribune, and a longtime writer myself, I know powerful writing when I see it and feel it, and Ellen’s writing holds the power to open hearts and minds, and leave us all with deeper understandings of ourselves and our place in this world.”
—  Barbara Mahany, author of three books