Hi! I’m Henriette. I’m a two-time kidney transplanted warrior from age 19 through 56. I am 12 years sober from drugs and alcohol. In no particular order, I love my living donor and mensch 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
How I fell out of love with pills and found love so I could love my husband again.
Big G and Me
In finding a spiritual solution to years of physical pain, I healed from my father’s alcoholic death.
Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Henriette
My teen story of facing my mortality and sexuality over one fraught year.
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.
I am currently working on Dog-Shaped Hole: How Five Hounds Healed Hen about the spiritual impact of my dogs.
“There is no love of life without despair of life.”