For many years, Carolyn Stegman, R.N., Ed.D. taught the psychology of death, dying, and bereavement and the psychology of aging at Salisbury University, while also serving as a consultant for MAC, the area agency on aging. She currently teaches these subjects for the Association of Lifelong Learning (ALL), a continuing education program for older persons.

For seven years, she wrote a column in The Daily Times on diversity and interpersonal relations, tackling such issues as racism, sexism, and agism. She was commissioned by Maryland’s First Lady to write Women of Achievement in Maryland History, largely about older women fighting social injustice.

Her latest novel, The Sages of Oak Place, is about a unique senior living facility that, besides pills and treatments, provides life affirming services. Oak Place houses older persons who have rejected a trajectory toward death that is boring and lonely.  The sages have created a community where elders can live fully in an atmosphere that values their often unsung, yet extraordinary lives.

She is author of the novel, A Gold-Mended Life, which uses, as a metaphor for life, Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of mending broken objects and painting the cracks with gold, thus making them stronger and more beautiful than before they were broken.