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MEET BARBARA GREENLEAF Barbara Greenleaf has a day job. She writes the bi-monthly blog, www.ParentsOfGrownOffspring.com, which deals with the many issues that arise in today’s adult family. But she also has a side hustle, and that is writing humor. Sometimes she spends more time on the side hustle than on the day job, and the result is her latest book, THIS OLD BODY: And 99 Other Reasons to Laugh at Life. Barbara began writing at the age of eight, when she composed her Last Will & Testament. After graduating from Vassar College, she worked at The New York Times and was granted her first book contract at the age of 24. She has seven books to her credit, including two young adult novels still in print, Animal Kingdom and Good-to-Go Café. They encourage young teens to dream big. She also published the award-winning nonfiction books America Fever: The Story of American Immigratio;, Forward March to Freedom, a juvenile biography of A. Philip Randolph; Children Through the Ages: A History of Childhood; Help: A Handbook for Working Mothers with Louis Schaffer, M.D.; In addition, she has penned numerous articles and speeches, one of which won a Best Speech in L.A. Award and two others that were published in Vital Speeches of the Day. She served as a contributing editor at Working Mother magazine. Over the years Barbara applied her communications and consulting skills to the corporate world. She worked for an energy conglomerate and a satellite communications firm before founding Greenleaf Video, a purveyor of nonfiction videos. After selling that company, she started Strategic Communications/LA, where her clients included the RAND Corporation, the Santa Monica Pier, and the SPCA/LA. More recently, she was Associate Vice Chancellor of Antioch University Santa Barbara. On the volunteer side, Barbara helped save agricultural land in Goleta, mentored students at Santa Barbara High School, and founded the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival. She has been married since the Civil War to the dashing Jon Greenleaf, with whom she shares two daughters and four grandchildren. When she’s not blogging or kidding around about the everyday humiliations and aggravations of growing older, Barbara can be found creating mixed media art.
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