Karen Buscemi - Author / Columnist

Savvy author and columnist, Karen Buscemi, lets viewers in on her wise and viable tips for co-parenting with a not-so cooperative ex. Based on her own experiences, and her two books: Split in Two: Keeping it Together When Your Parents Live Apart (helps teens cope with life in two different households), and I Do, Part 2: How to Survive Divorce, Co-Parent With Your Kids, and Blend your Families, she covers all co-parenting ground. The conversation with Host David Glass veers in an interesting direction when the two drill down into how a hostile relationship with a co-parent can adversely impact the child (for life) and set the tone for lifelong animosity between parents. She lays it out, pulling no punches with her tips.

Biography

Karen is the author of Split in Two: Keeping It Together When Your Parents Live Apart (Zest Books, 2009), I Do, Part 2: How To Survive Divorce, Co-Parent Your Kids, and Blend Your Families (Norlights Press, 2011), The Makeover (Starryeyed Press, 2013), Saturday Nights at the God Café (Starryeyed Press, 2014), and All That We Hide (Starryeyed Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Women’s Health, Self, HuffPost, Figure, The Detroit News and Hour Detroit. She has given a TEDxDetroit talk titled “Fashion Unfurled: The Industry No One Associates with Michigan”.

During her interview with Glass, Karen offered some valuable advice to those who have the misfortune of dealing with a difficult ex when co-parenting a child. Her tips are ever appropriate, ones that a parent can use long after the child(children) leave home.

A fixture in Michigan’s fashion industry, Karen Buscemi has served as a fashion journalist, editor, stylist and nonprofit founder. As an editor of multiple metro Detroit lifestyle magazines, she covered fashion, beauty and home design for over a decade, and was a regular media contributor on Detroit’s top news stations.

In 2012, she founded Detroit Garment Group, a fashion nonprofit that ran a decade of workforce and industry development programs, including Michigan’s first industrial sewing certification. In 2015, Karen launched Detroit Sewn, a full-service factory dedicated to Made-in-USA manufacturing. The factory remained open for more than eight years until she was ultimately forced to shut it down.

She’s currently writing a big idea personal narrative on how unrecognized childhood trauma made her a bad business owner.

Karen lives in Michigan with her husband and three cats. Her two kids have flown the coop.