💼The Write Stuff (Portfolio)

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Author Biography

Diane is a published author and podcaster whose career has offered up a bountiful buffet of opportunities in industries as diverse as media, education, entertainment, and fitness, leading to incredible feats of multi-tasking. This explains her unique ability to speak loudly, grade essays, and deliver a punchline as she assumes the plank position for one minute and 22 seconds.

Essays / Humor Columns

(Union newspaper columnist for 25+ years)

All Is Not Lost

In(to) a Pickle

I’ve Got Some Nerve

The Honey Maybe List

The Superpower That’s Not So Super

Ready, Set, (Don’t) Crunch!

How Life is Like Meatloaf

The Cat and the Squirrel…an unusual love story

Let’s All Do the Wave

A Simpler Time for Simpler Folk 

Proning the Accident

‘Tis the Season for Foofy Drinks

No iPhone iSwear

Warmth For All 

Going Home  

(Seniors Guide)

Hair’s the Thing

I’ve Got Some Nerve

(Lifestyles After 50)

My Superpower is to Make Any Situation (Even More) Awkward

(Little Old Lady Comedy)

Tissue Legacy

(University of Dayton Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop)

And They Call It Puppy Love

We Met at a Bar…an American Love Story

Sunflower Daycare

Bed Spray

(Sweat Pants & Coffee)

Two Weeks: A Reflection 

(The San Francisco Chronicle)

In the Teeth of the Evidence 

(Medium)

Multiple Articles

Featured Author

Book Reviews & Interviews

Book Reader Magazine

The Union newspaper (2018)

The Union newspaper (2022)

Feature Articles

California CPA magazine A Call to Action (Published by California CPA magazine)

Get Your Blogger Gears Going (Published by Bigger Law Firm magazine)

Link to The New Paradigm of Classic Content Marketing (Published by Bigger Law Firm magazine)

LinkedIn Newsletter

MS. WRITENOW (LinkedIn)

The Dance

If It Please the Court

Hair’s the Thing

Spun Out

Stubborn Stock

Books

(7 published books to date: Humor, Humorous Fiction, Historical/Non-Fiction)

MY LATEST (HUMOR) BOOK IS BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX…here’s a descriptive snippet!!!

Pending the invention of a time machine, we’ll all have to make peace with aging. What better way to do it than having some fun at aging’s expense? Bangs ‘N’ Botox does just that…and so much more.

As a relative unknown, Diane acknowledges she might be destined to become the Emily Dickinson of humor—sans living next to a cemetery—with her work gaining popularity posthumously, if at all. Nevertheless, she presses on, writing Bangs ‘N’ Botox, her fourth humor book.

Step into Diane’s laugh-lined world as she acts as your guide through this entertaining take on aging. With the sharp wit of a seasoned humorist and the life experience of a baby boomer and active senior, she offers up a fresh and funny perspective in her signature “sit-down standup” comedy writing style.

Packed with punchlines, Bangs ‘N’ Botox is filled with humorous observations, pithy asides, helpful hints, and the occasional rant, all told from Diane’s hilarious perspective. Delivering rapid-fire laughs, she tells you about everything from her marginally successful skincare experimentation to her knack for making any situation awkward to how different her glory days are from her golden years.

This share-worthy book will have you reading excerpts out loud to your friends and family. Aging has never been this relatable—or this comical.

BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX: My Aging Journey Into, Through, and Beyond Denial, Fillers & Human Preservatives

Maternal Meanderings (Humor)

Last Call (Humorous Mystery)         

KILL-TV (Humorous Mystery)

I’ll Always Be There For You…Unless I’m Somewhere Else (Humor)

Remember: A Father-Daughter WWII Stalag 17-B POW Story About Never Giving Up  (Non-Fiction, WWI, Memoir)

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