Welcome back, !The anthology committee has been working hard through all of 2025 to produce our next anthology of short stories about women who confront life's challenges in ways that are bold, uplifting, and risky.We are pleased to announce.....Feis...
Guess what Malin likes to talk about, ? This fall, Malin has figured out the magic of talking buttons, and we've been adding more buttons each week. Last I wrote you, he was asking for "chewy" a dozen times a day. Now that he has 18 buttons, guess wh...
It’s the ocean! Look where I am, …I’m on an artist-in-residence retreat at the Starry Night Inn for the next few days. The goal is to leave home all the housework, homeschooling, piano practices, cooking, and college applications*, and just write. I...
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...
... 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...
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,...
, 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...
Here's to a happy weekend of reading, !It's time for fall colors, hot drinks, hand-made quilts, and a whole lot of books for you.... Thank you for helping to make launch week a success for The Knight & His Magical Armlet! We've gotten into Amaz...
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...
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...
