I’m sending my baby boy to Montessori school. This means his clothes will be put away, because he won’t be…
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I remember.
I remember when I broke out in a rash, an unfortunate allergic reaction to penicillin. My dad took me to…
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Creative Writing Camp is always a delight. Coming up with writing prompts for young children exercises my own creativity, but…
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I’d like to buy a vowel, please.
My twenty-one month old son, Oliver, is beginning to talk. He’s been babbling for months, in construction that sounds like…
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“We’re all messes.”
I write a word, then a few more, the words become sentences, the sentences paragraphs. Then I stop. I wait…
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Let’s talk writing process.
The brilliant literati Chris Cander invited me to hop on a blog tour all about writing process. Chris is an…
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From sickness breathes life.
Five days with a sick child, five days of physically wincing as he screamed, five days of holding him close…
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From one hand to another.
I’ve known Robin Williams for so long that I can’t remember a time that I didn’t. Throughout my life, each…
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There’s this thing about paper.
You can feel it. In your hands. Your eyes don’t narrow down into comic-book style slits to catch a word,…
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The blank page.
In 2007, I started writing in a vocational sort of way, and I say that because I’ve always written. Of…
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