Winterview is a book of memories, musings, and life stories about growing up, work, relationships, marriage, divorce, loneliness, remarriage, and becoming older.

Included are essays about the pain and grief of loss, reflections about the difficulty of seeking child custody, the struggles of being a writer, and the challenges of working with the developmentally disabled.

A number of the pieces included in the book are based in part or in their entirety on previous writing published in The New York Times, The Single Parent, the Berkeley Fiction Review, and American Way, the in-flight magazine of American Airlines.