Francine Toder, Ph.D. is an emeritus faculty member of California State
University, Sacramento and is a clinical psychologist retired from private
practice. She is also the author of When Your Child Is Gone: Learning to Live
Again, Your Kids Are Grown: Moving On With and Without Them, and The Vintage
Years: Finding your Inner Artist (Writer, Musician, Visual Artist) After Sixty.Her
extensive writing on diverse topics appears in magazines, professional journals,
newspapers, blog sites such as Huffington Post, Next Avenue and Thrive Global, as
well as edited book chapters. She resides with her husband in the San Francisco
Bay Area.