I write about psychology and relationships, love and resiliency, in novels, memoirs, and non-fiction. History informs all of it, either through deep research in libraries and archives or by way of memory and imagination.
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Why the past doesn’t stay in the past
My memoir and my novel explore attachment bonds and injuries from the inside out. Here is a short piece on Selfies and the search for meaning in one’s own face.
Mother love and mother loss
July 4th always brings with it memories of my mother, Ernestine, whose birthday fell on the holiday. This is an excerpt from The Book of Mom, my exploration about the deep interconnections between mother-love and mother-loss.
Brief History of Gay Pride Marches
In America, the first gay or “homophile” organizations began in the the early 1950s, the most famous being the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles and
Why the past doesn’t stay in the past
My memoir and my novel explore attachment bonds and injuries from the inside out. Here is a short piece on Selfies and the search for meaning in one’s own face.
Mother love and mother loss
July 4th always brings with it memories of my mother, Ernestine, whose birthday fell on the holiday. This is an excerpt from The Book of Mom, my exploration about the deep interconnections between mother-love and mother-loss.
Jane Gerhard writes about psychology and relationships, love and resiliency, dementia, anorexia and primates, in novels, memoirs and essays. History informs it all, either through deep research in libraries and archives or by way of memory and imagination.
Why the past doesn’t stay in the past
My memoir and my novel explore attachment bonds and injuries from the inside out. Here is a short piece on Selfies and the search for meaning in one’s own face.
Mother love and mother loss
July 4th always brings with it memories of my mother, Ernestine, whose birthday fell on the holiday. This is an excerpt from The Book of Mom, my exploration about the deep interconnections between mother-love and mother-loss.
Brief History of Gay Pride Marches
In America, the first gay or “homophile” organizations began in the the early 1950s, the most famous being the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles and