Lorraine Duffy Merkl is a published author, freelance journalist, and advertising creative director/copywriter. She’s written two novels: Back To Work She Goes (2013) and Fat Chick (2009), both published by The Vineyard Press. As a journalist, she’s been a columnist for Fifty Is The New Fifty, She Knows, New York Family Magazine; Our Town and The West Side Spirit newspapers; as well as Care.com. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Time, New York Post, New York Family, New York Observer; and online: More; Motherly; Cosmopolitan; Adweek; Busted Halo; Quartz, The Huffington Post, The Frisky, xoJane, Nerve, Bustle, Redbook, Woman’s Day, Seventeen, Marie Claire, and Town & Country, The Talko and The Girlfriend. In her freelance advertising career she specializes in entertainment marketing .
All these extraordinary women have one thing in common: They haven’t slowed down.
I can finally let go of all that's been weighing me down.
And what she did that always irked me.
Maybe I’m still someone who for better or worse commands attention, aka “I still got it.” Except now, I don’t want it.