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Words and music are my earliest memories. Language and writing were my first loves in school. I've kept up some form of word-stringing most years--only in the most difficult times letting go of the jottings, notes, lists, letters, and poetry.
All of it came to a halt with a brain hemorrhage the summer of my fifty-eighth year. While home recovering after a lengthy rehab, I began to take online writing courses. I found memoirs. I was, once again, captured by the beauty of words and meaning, and began to record my experience in personal essays. Writing permitted me to take stock of life-changing events and has been therapeutic and life-affirming.
My husband, Phil, and I now live in Lewes, DE with our fourteen-year-old Chihuahua, Maxwell, rescued from a Miami shelter.

I write to find the truth in my experience. In my new book, I trace my life as an adoptive daughter in the 1950s and 1960s and my search and reunion with my natural family that began in 1990.
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Coming To Terms: My Journey Continues

Kindle Reader Review
"You never know how you will accept the adversities that must be faced in life until the unimaginable has struck you down and left you feeling helpless and overwhelmed. Mary Ellen had to decide, after a debilitating stroke, if she would accept a far more diminished life and recoil into the shadows or find an inner spark of light in the darkness and see her way to a better tomorrow. She struggled step by step and word by word through fear, pain and weakness to reclaim her strength and independence. Today is different, no doubt, than the life she knew pre-stroke. She has, however, persevered and found ways to reinvent herself and wake to meaningful and productive days. The sharing of her story is a victory over the adversity that had left her speechless."-