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Denise M. Brown

Denise M. Brown

Denise M. Brown debuted Caregiving.com in 1996 and has authored five book to help family caregivers: The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey; Take Comfort, Reflections of Hope for Caregivers; Take Comfort, Too, More Reflections of Hope; Good Morning! Sunny Reflections to Start Your Day; and Take Time, A Journal and Journey Toward Greater Happiness During an Unhappy Time (Caregiving). Denise's insights about the caregiving experience have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and Chicago Tribune and on SmartMoney.com. Denise is also a professional caregiving coach, working with family caregivers and professionals to find the meaning in their journeys.

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  • February 6, 2012

    How I Did It: Denise M. Brown, Founder, Caregiving.com

    In 1984, I sat in my Creative Writing class at the University of Illinois with neither a creative idea nor a story to write. I loved writing and wanted to write. But I wrote the same story--a story about lost love--over and over.

    The recycling of stories wasn't lost on my classmates, especially one who told me, "I feel I've read this story before, Denise." Of course he had. My writing was a wish in my heart. I simply didn't know how to turn that wish into words on a page.

    Six years later, I sat on the bedroom floor in my apartment, scouring the newspaper's want ads. I had just quit my job writing for a trade magazine. I had a job writing, but no one read what I wrote. That drove me nuts. I wanted to write what people wanted to read. And, I wanted to write what would make a difference to the reader.

Maria Shriver © 2012. All rights reserved.

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