NEW NEWS
COMING SOON FROM PINK TREES PRESS!
CAN’T CLIMB A MOUNTAIN IN A BALL GOWN
Love poems spanning dating disasters, a great marriage, and everything in between!
IT WAS HER NEW YORK
EBOOK (FIXED FORMAT)
NOW AVAILABLE AT ROOTSTOCKPUBLISHING.COM!
Photo by Morgan Gwenwald, 1988
“I’d like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.”
-John Patrick Shanely, 1988, Moonstruck Oscar acceptance speech
“Yes, I’m definitely thanking everybody who ever punched or kissed me. But first, I’m yelling at them.”
-C.O. Moed, 2026
“…through beds and bars on the Lower East Side, to true love….” - Judith Lee Herbert, Songbird
“Filled with longing and mischief…..” - Estha Weiner, This Insubstantial Pageant
“…love in all its forms-complicated, painful, fun and real…” - Francine Witte, Some Distant Pin of Light
**************************************
IT WAS
HER
NEW YORK
Intimate photo-illustrated vignettes celebrating the fierce moxie of New Yorkers, a sixty-year-old hidden love between two women, the definition of home as it slowly disappears into gentrification and what it means to be family
"YOU CAN CORRECT MY GRAMMAR BUT YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF BED?"
— from IT WAS HER NEW YORK
********************
UPCOMING WORKS
HOME SWEET HOME
photos of streets, neighbors, family, friends,subways…home
