Kimberly Childs grew up moving between London, New York and her grandparent’s Kentucky farm.  Determined to find her spiritual family she searched through 1960s San Francisco and found Guru Sri Chinmoy’s ashram in Queens, New York.  While with the group, she co-owned three vegetarian restaurants.  After leaving the ashram she enrolled in Adelphi University and attained her Masters Degree in Social Work.  She worked with alcoholics and their families and turned to fiber arts as a mode of self-expression. She has had many one-woman shows and won awards.

When she lost her voice to spasmodic dysphonia she turned to Peggy Millin’s women’s creative writing circle as a way of healing. She Writes Press will be publishing Childs’ Remember Me As Loving You: a Daughter’s Memoir in September, 2017. Kimberly now resides in Asheville, NC.

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In this colorful memoir, Kimberly Childs searches for the love and home her glamorous, alcoholic mother is unable to provide. Her mother is a mountain woman with unusual charisma—a real-life Holly GoLightly—who marries Broadway’s meanest, but most celebrated producer, David Merrick, and proceeds to self-destruct. Bounced from place to place, Childs grows up in Lady Eden’s English boarding school, London’s prestigious Savoy Hotel, a her grandparents’ Kentucky farm (complete with outhouse), a Manhattan private girls’ school, and amongst Broadway’s theaters.

Seeking connection on the streets and in the communes of 1960s San Francisco, Childs discovers serenity through meditation and the Dances of Universal Peace.  Aspiring for transformation, she finds home in Guru Sri Chinmoy’s ashram—then realizes she must trust her own instincts and after nearly eleven years courageously walks away. A touching story of compassion and forgiveness, Remember Me As Loving You is a compelling read of family and betrayal, of courage and fortitude, and of inspiration to find and, ultimately, be one’s self.