Mindy Pol­lack-Fusi is a life­long writer, pub­lic rela­tions pro­fes­sion­al, founder of The Place for Words, and jour­nal­ist and essay­ist for The Boston Globe. She holds a B.S. from Syra­cuse Uni­ver­si­ty School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and an M.S. from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. Orig­i­nal­ly from Long Island, NY she moved to Lex­ing­ton, Mass. then Brook­line, Mass. and now lives in Bed­ford and Fal­mouth, Mass.