Photo by Andrea Scher
​UPDATE: It's two years later and I'm still smiling about this!
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​The NY Times chose a story I wrote to run online in Tiny Love Stories on July 25, 2023. It also appeared in the print version of the NY Times on Sunday, July 30, 2023 next to the Modern Love column in the Sunday Styles section.
I'm super excited for you to read it! It's a tiny (100 word) love story about my parents. ​Check it out: "God's Wife."
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A late bloomer...in my thirties, I graduated from The
Ohio State University. In my sixties, I published my first book
Happiness Junkie, followed by Married to a Vegan, then Home Coming, a poetic romp into the pandemic, politics, and personal hurricanes. Who doesn’t love a good poetic romp?
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​My newest book, The Storyteller – Keeping Family Lore Alive, captures the stories once kept by my mother, now gone. A series of poems and essays reveal the humanity and humor of my family's sometimes storied past, likely not that different from your own. Publishing Fall 2025.
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People describe my writing as honest, insightful, and humorous.
It can tug on your heart and make you laugh at the same time.
Twelve Steps to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life.. Want more happiness? This book is for you. TRUE, TENDER, TRANSFORMING
Her story - Their marriage went from magic to mayhem. His story - a rigid plant-based diet, amazing results. Their story - a world together.
A poetic romp into politics, the pandemic, and personal hurricanes. TENDER, FUNNY, TRUE
Some stories are just too good to let them die with our parents! Cue Caren Albers. She rescues the stories that originate in the heart and soul of her family’s history. An entertaining, revealing, honest capture of a family’s moments and memories. The poems and essays in this tight-knit book make good on Albers’ promise to keep her family’s lore alive for the next generation. Watch book trailer here.
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