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SaraKay Smullens

SaraKay Smullens

SaraKay Smullens is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award by the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Social Work (nominated by Book Architecture!). She is the bestselling author of Whoever Said Life is Fair? and Setting YourSelf Free: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in Family, Friendship, Love and Work. She has a wonderful husband, children and grandchildren, and is the classiest woman we know who is not afraid of her past.

The Sixty Second Interview with… SaraKay Smullens

  1. How do you take your coffee? With steamed, skim milk.
  2. What kinds of advice do your friends ask you for? Too innumerable and complicated to begin to explain in limited space. I ask them also.
  3. Of all the metaphors by which writing has been portrayed, which is your favorite? Seeing something dear to you through the process of completion is truly a birth.
  4. Do you have any writing tics or blind spots that you had to conquer the hard way? I have to literally force myself to make the time. So many pulls, among them exhaustion.
  5. What is your mantra for handling rejection? Have a good dinner with one dear to you.
  6. What are your three signature words or phrases? To be continued.

Our (current) favorite sentence of SaraKay’s: “The hardest part of work isn’t the work.”