My latest book, LESSONS FOR THE LIVING: STORIES OF FORGIVENESS, GRATITUDE, AND COURAGE AT THE END OF LIFE, has received six awards including:

-The London Book Festival's 2009 Grand Prize
-Inclusion of excerpts in the 2010 ANTHOLOGY OF BEST BUDDHIST WRITING.
-Top 10 book reads for 2009 by a myshelf.com reviewer

LESSONS FOR THE LIVING is a memoir of how I learned to live with prostate cancer by helping children and adults to die in hospice. Rather than being a book about death, it's about how to live meaningfully for as much time as one has left. Dramatic rights are available.

-Professor Emeritus San Francisco State University
-6 awards for LESSONS FOR THE LIVING
-12+ other national/international writing awards
-7 books in English, Chinese, and soon in Portuguese and Indonesian.
-100+ magazine, newspaper, and blog articles
-International presenter
-Consultant on personal and institutional change

RECOVER YOUR JOY. Everyone has suffered a loss so devastating that they think recovery isn't possible. It can be in the area of loved ones, relationships, aspirations, identities, occupations, domiciles, and abilities. What few realize is that they don't grieve what was lost, but rather the emotion it created. In this book, they'll learn how to recover that joy, regardless of the loss or its severity.

CAN YOU WORK? A novel. This is a story (set in current time in San Francisco) of a hospice patient who comes to terms with dying by reliving the major events in his life beginning with internment in Buchenwald at the age of nine, and finally the difficulty he experienced in telling his son he loved him only days before his death.