Other Works by Lorraine

In more than 25 years as a writer and journalist, Lorraine has had countless works published. Listed below are some notable examples.

Selected Articles

These stories appeared in the Daily Record, a Gannett paper based in New Jersey.

Medicine / health

• Is genomics medicine’s holy grail? (1/16/2011)
• Repair the tear: Seniors at risk of torn rotator cuffs (8/3/2010)
• Boonton Township man offers support for pancreatic cancer patients (7/5/2009)

Enterprise

• What We Believe, a two-part series
  1. Part One: Does God exist? Are prayers answered? (11/28/2010)
  2. Part Two: Many people view themselves as ‘spiritual’ but are disdainful of traditional faiths (11/29/2010)
• Bad economy puts divorces on hold (10/26/2009)
• Critical condition: Tough times putting pressure on hospitals’ charity care (5/10/2009)

Business

• Based in Chatham NJ, office gives ‘micro’ loans to women entrepreneurs (7/11/2010)
• Few jobs, fewer loans, no stimulus handcuff many contractors (3/14/2010)

Features

• Young New Jersey farmers are cultivating a future (7/18/2010)
• Gelato catching on in Morris (7/1/2009)
• Parsippany native sends greetings from International Space Station (5/15/2008)

Veterans

• Needs of new vets threaten to strain VA health system (4/29/2007)
• Excerpts from Back from the Front, a year-long series in 2006 following the lives of individual local military people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • A model soldier: Paratrooper aids recruiting effort by his example
  • Mother, pastor, soldier: Armed with faith, Drew seminary student follows calling into war
  • Proud of caging Saddam, prouder of soldier son
• Vets hone their skills while rebuilding lives (9/20/2004)

Academia

• Father-son team studies murals marking violent deaths (8/23/2009)
• Have PhD, will travel: Academia is increasingly dependent on flexible, part-time faculty (8/19/2007)

Human Interests, a weekly column

• To these three pals, bocce is more than a game (7/19/2009)
• From the top of the world to Wharton, about a sherpa (6/21/2009)
• Group tries to frame the big picture of life, about the Association for Higher Awareness (5/31/2009)

Plays

• Jackson, www.uspresidents.com/jackson.htm
• Tyler, www.uspresidents.com/tyler.htm
• Monroe, www.uspresidents.com/monroe.htm
  

Short Stories

A Broken Spell appeared in the April 2010 issue of Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing.

Essays

• Stillbirth, the Loneliest Grief appeared in the Spring 2005 edition of We Need Not Walk Alone, the national magazine of The Compassionate Friends.
• Living With Stillbirth appeared in the February 2005 issue of Journeys, the Hospice Foundation of America newsletter.
• Dr. Fu’s Tea appeared in Steeped: In the World of Tea, released in September 2004. This anthology, a beautiful volume combining essays and photography, explores rituals and experiences with tea the world over. Steeped is available from Amazon.com.
• Dancer appeared in Cairn Volume 36 (St. Andrews College Press, 2002)
• Lunch at Chand Palace appeared on Ducts.org, Issue 12, Winter 2003-04 at www.ducts.org/12_03/html/essays/ash.htm

Other Authors We Like

Lorraine has written the Foreword for Mourning Sarah, an important new consciousness-raising book about a baby who died of Group B Strep, the same bacterium that killed Lorraine’s daughter Victoria. This new work, by Theresa Vigour, was released in April 2008 by Radcliffe Publishing throughout the United States and United Kingdom.

Lorraine has endorsed several books:

• There Was Supposed to Be a Baby: A Guide to Healing After Pregnancy Loss (Hummingbird Press), by Catherine Noblitt Keating
• They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about Stillbirth (Rowman & Littlefield), by Janel C. Atlas, author/editor
• One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships (New World Library), by John E. Welshons
• Sheltering Thoughts About Loss and Grief (Tate Publishing), by Sharon Gilchrist O’Neill
• High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis: Your Journey (Free Association Books), by Stephanie Azri
• When Prayers Aren’t Answered (New World Library), by John E. Welshons

Other books of interest:

• The Good Grief Club: A true story about the power of friendship and French toast (Inkwell), by Monica Novak, www.thegoodgriefclub.com
• Empty Arms: Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death (Wintergreen Press), by Sherokee Ilse, www.BabiesRemembered.org
• Couple Communication After a Baby Dies (Wintergreen Press), by Sherokee Ilse and Tim Nelson, www.BabiesRemembered.org