Fall is my favorite season—always has been. Probably because I grew up in Vermont and the state goes from green to blazing technicolor at this time of year. I love the crispness of the days, wrapping up in a sweater…
The Wrap-Up
It’s been slow going getting back to regular life after losing my brother, but it’s happening. Life, as they say, really does go on. And while he remains in my heart (and always ALWAYS will), I’m doing my best to…
Playlist for Anywhere
Anywhere is the first book I’ve written where I listened to music almost constantly while writing. With previous books I needed complete silence to write, but for some reason I craved the music with Anywhere. Maybe because I found the…
On Saying Goodbye
My heart is heavy and my footsteps slow as I head into this weekend, for I am burying my big brother. My only brother. This wasn’t the way it was supposed to happen. It should be another forty years before…
On New Beginnings
September always feels like a beginning even though we homeschool all year round (there’s no beginning or end to our learning and we’re eclectic in our approach—life learning, unschooling, project based). Maybe it’s because everyone else is going back to…