A Conversation with Roberta Kuriloff, the Author of Framing a Life

Roberta S. Kuriloff is a speaker, community activist, former attorney and the author of Framing a Life: Building the Space to be Me (She Writes Press, July 18, 2023). With humor and poignancy, her memoir takes readers along an inspiring journey of self-discovery as Roberta finds that home is less a physical place than an intrinsic sense of self, an unshakable foundation of the heart and soul. She also published “Everything Special, Living Joy, Prose and Poems to Inspire,” and a short story she wrote, “Unearthing Home,” was published in Yellow Arrow Publishing Journal. An essay called ‘Musings on the Word Atonement’ was published in “Art In The Time of Unbearable Crisis; Women Writers Respond to the Call” published by She Writes Press June 2022.

As a child living in an orphanage, Roberta dreamed of being Superman’s daughter flying above Earth to save the world’s disenfranchised children, or being the Pied Piper leading the other kids back to their family homes. In later life, her legal work centered on families in emotional and financial crisis. She is a founding member of two domestic violence projects as well as an elderly services organization, and was a hospice patient-volunteer and bereavement workshop facilitator. In between her community work, she makes time to enjoy her passions for writing and dance.

In Framing a Life, Roberta explores how those losses shaped the woman, lawyer, and activist she’d become. As she cleared land, hammered nails, lifted beams, and shivered in her rented mobile home, the answers came to her. Roberta’s journey of self-discovery is truly inspiring as she finds that home is more than just a physical place; it’s an intrinsic sense of self, an unshakable foundation of the heart and soul.
Roberta speaks about:

• How writing letters to her departed mother in her journal brought her clarity and comfort during times of intense grief
• The concept of “home” and how that idea has evolved for her over time – from spending part of her childhood in an orphanage to learning the true meaning of togetherness, family, caring and security
• Pursuing an uncharted spiritual journey, and how she found solace after losing loved ones
• How we fit into our cultural and religious ancestry
• Understanding how we look at life – half empty or half full

Find out more about her at www.RobertaKuriloff.com.

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