Life began for me when Starbucks was born. Oh, wait, that’s a little too dramatic…but I
got your attention, didn’t I? Hear me
out-you might agree.
I got my first teaching job over the phone. Yup.
The Seattle School District hired me as a green education graduate - St.
Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota-sight unseen, but after a successful practice teaching experience.
Seattle captured my heart: I taught high school and
served as a high school principal there for the next thirty-three years. But it’s that first job I want to tell you
about as it connects to Starbucks. I
taught junior high English in the Central Area of Seattle, a rough neighborhood
in those days. My buddy was a history
teacher, Zev Siegel. My career path to
teach high school separated me from him the following year…he went on to roast
coffee beans with two of his friends, selling the first Starbucks to Howard
Schultz in 1971.
Cool story so far, huh? Dang that Zev and I weren’t ‘closer,’ but,
see, I’m 5’10 and he was about 5’6. My
husband is 6’5”. You get the drift. Zev sold Starbucks in 1971 and I married
Steve in 1971. There you go: A new life,
beginning!
Steve and I go to coffee almost every day at one of
three Starbucks in our CA neighborhood, where we read the local paper and New
York Times. I know all the barista’s
well enough to have made friends among them, including the general manager of
six local Starbucks.
Now you understand why I’m having book signings at
two Starbucks in August. FEAR LAND
releases TODAY, AUGUST 1!... and I can’t think of a better place to launch the
book. My friends tell me it isn’t easy
to get permission for a book signing at Starbucks, but since I go way, way,
back with Starbucks and those young baristas are now my friends, I think you
can see why Starbucks and I are a fine pairing.
A good book and a delicious latte…what could be better?
This is FEAR LAND:
Tally
hates to hear rants from people’s brains.
What does she do when those mind-screams threaten
the
man she loves?
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Tally
Rosella, an acclaimed psychiatrist who helps children fraught with anxiety, avoids
adults because their brains rant at her.
But the chance to start a second
child study and connect her findings to PTSD, sets her squarely among devious
colleagues at a big California university.
Army
Major Cole Messer, Tally’s new neighbor, won’t admit that trauma from combat
tours in Afghanistan, destroyed his marriage and hampered his ability to
lead. As a teacher of college ROTC and
single parent, he’s focused on enrolling his highly anxious son in Tally’s
study and getting back to active duty.
Someone
is dead set against Tally’s presence at the university, and blowback from her
battles with co-workers put Cole and his son in jeopardy. Watch what happens when people struggling
with shades of anxiety collide with corrupt, revengeful foes.
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