Hi! I’m Henriette. I’m a two-time kidney transplant warrior from age 13 through 55! I am 11 years sober from drugs and alcohol. In no particular order, I love my husband, Kevin, writing, sponsoring women, acting in Hallmark movies, black licorice and my dog, Jack. I will interrupt you mid-sentence if I see a dog.
In Pillness and in Health: A Memoir
A love story of how I fell out of love with pills and in love with myself so I could love my husband again.
Big G and Me: In Pillness and in Health 2
In finding a spiritual solution to years of physical pain, I found a higher power that helped me heal from the death of my father.
My BIO!
Winner of the Allegra Johnson Award in memoir writing for In Pillness and in Health: A Memoir (UCLA Writers' Extension). Published work includes: The Road to Self-Publishing (OC Register), Dear Corona Virus (Politiken), Alcohol May Intensify Effect (Barrelhouse), My Soul Mate is a Kidney-Transplanted Woman Half My Age (rsnhope.org) and Here’s a Tip! How We Kept Love in a Marriage of Illness, (rsnhope.org).
Pillness is available in Spanish as Hasta Que Las Pastillas Nos Separen (O No) from Yonki Books.
Works-in-progress: Are you there, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Henriette about her YA years living with kidney failure, and Five Hounds and a Hen about the spirituality of dogs through illness. Jack not included.
“There is no love of life without despair of life.”