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I am an accidental author. My memoir about my last year with my terminally ill mother essentially wrote itself in the weeks of intense grief following her death in September 2009. Chapters poured out of me at all hours of the day and night, flowing directly from a broken heart to a blank page. I finished the manuscript by mid-December, in time to give it to my father for Christmas, his first without his wife and sweetheart of 52 years.
When I started writing, I never expected my words would turn into a memoir that would be published and win awards; nor could I have predicted I would become a passionate and vocal advocate for hospice and palliative care. But these things all happened, and they have opened doors -- doors that I'm walking through filled with a sense of both gratitude and wonder about where they may lead.
Now that this story I never wanted to tell is written, I am happy to keep my mother's legacy of love and her joyful, generous spirit alive through its pages. And I will be forever grateful for the extraordinary gift of hospice my mother and our family received.
Learn more at https://www.campanellabooks.com, and please follow me on twitter @campanellalinda.
Professionally I keep busy as a Connecticut-based management consultant. Previously I have been a corporate executive, a college administrator, and a trade negotiator. (I am a walking advertisement for the value of a liberal arts degree. See where a major in German can take you?!) I am married to my high school sweetheart. We have three adult sons and Stella, a mini-goldendoodle whose unconditional love is no substitute for my mother's but sure makes me feel good.
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