Sheltie Gazette: When I chose the floor

Which are the stories you can't help thinking about, ?When I was in junior high, the school roof collapsed in a snowstorm. My alternative school had been assigned to a decrepit elementary building years before, so overall this was a good thing—after...

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Nov 13, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: What is a witch?

... let me tell you a story. A Halloween story.It's about the first Halloween we were back in America. You see, when my older kids were little, we lived in Uganda for a while. Some of my children were born there and some were born here, but we were a...

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Oct 31, 2025
Sheltie Gazettes: How many times does one button work?

Hey — have I told you about the buttons?I got the dogs some talking buttons last spring. You know...the kind where they push a button, which says a word, and then you can have a conversation with your pet.* At our house, we currently have 6 buttons,...

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Oct 24, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: Brought to you by the letter I

, do you want to hear about Inish?Thank you for hanging out with me for the book launch for The Knight & His Magical Armlet! We were in Amazon's Top 10 "New Releases for Fairy Tales" all week, and I loved getting your emails and comments about Ri...

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Oct 16, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: "Why did she leave me?"

It was late summer, and Rian and River were lying in a meadow looking at the stars. “You aren’t going to get married, are you?” River reached out and brushed his dad’s solid arm. “No woman will ever change the way I feel about you, son.” “But are yo...

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Oct 09, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: There aren't any lions in Ireland

It wasn’t the lion who killed him. Rian walked out of a meadow containing his tent and his dog and his six-year-old son, blinked in the disorienting shock of going through the Veil, and out into a different meadow with a lion pacing around a tree. I...

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Oct 08, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: What would a mother have done?

It was only what any warrior would have done—that was not true. It took several years for Rian to learn this; not until he was assigned command of an entire twelve-knight troop. By this point, Fionn mac Cumhaill’s fianna—his band of warriors—was kno...

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Oct 06, 2025