Gloria Parker: Meeting Robyn

Gloria Parker is the author of Meeting Robyn, the true-story of a young mother and her struggle to accept her only child's confusion with his sexual identitity and eventual transformation. Between takes and marriages, Gloria always wrote called to it by the love of words. She wrote Women’s Gym, a play about the California body obsession. Next, River Bed Motel, a play also produced in Los Angeles. After, she went to work writing for TV series and as editor of one of the largest directories in the music industry. She wanted to write the story about her child, but could not find a proper voice so she wrote other pieces. While her dear friends, Frank (Angela’s Ashes) and Ellen McCourt were visiting one weekend she proffered a draft for Frank to read. He encouraged her skill and sense of memory but, in his ironic Irish way, he said, “What the hell do you know about Mexican Politics? Write, for god sakes what you do know. Write a love story.” What the hell, indeed. So, she found her voice and wrote this love story. Dr. Wade is clinical psychologist, author, TV host, and motivational speaker, who inspires thousands of people each month with her dynamic range of events and free teleseminar's.