What do your kids want to know after school, ?That's what my 9-year-old is asking me lately: Have you got Peter out of Denmark yet?You see, this weekend, I had one of my teens make dinner and the other put the younger kids to bed, and explained to th...

Hello and all my favorite readers —First of all, the Shelties have discovered an evil interloper in our happy book-world... aka, a technology problem. Apparently, my email server and the platform that hosts my book giveaways are currently not talkin...

Hello ,It has come to my attention that the download link for "Magical Libraries" is not working correctly for a few of you. I believe you may be in the group that is affected, and I am very sorry!! Related to this offer that you signed up for!I have...

Hey ...I just looked at our shared family calendar and figured out what I'm getting for Valentine's Day. My husband is leaving for Italy! So I get all the tooth brushing, reminding kids to do their piano practices, dragging my teens through filling o...

All right, . You knew it.If I write a book about dogs, it was going to really be about dogs.You've been reading this newsletter. You know that I care about my dogs individually, and I see each personality, each gesture — I find the words my Shelties...

All right, . You knew it.If I write a book about dogs, it was going to really be about dogs.You've been reading this newsletter. You know that I care about my dogs individually, and I see each personality, each gesture — I find the words my Shelties...

Dear ,I had planned a cover reveal for you this week...but I'm just too sad. I have a new project almost ready to go out to you, and I really think you'll like it — but I just can't gather together my enthusiasm to talk about it. I'm not the only one...

Reunited with my Shelties again!I am on my favorite couch, Inish is pushing his way under my elbow, Adare is on the softest perch in the room keeping and eye on me, and Malin is..... well, the image would be better if he were curled up at my feet. Ho...

Hello from Japan, ! My father was an imperfect man.Of course, we are all imperfect, myself included. But between having some life experiences that were truly horrendously bad luck, and then blaming everything else on luck rather than ever examining h...

Hello, —I just sent this Sheltie Gazette, but it turned out one of the images had something wrong with it, and some people received half of a newsletter and then an endless stream of code. Here is the exact same newsletter, with the problematic image...