It’s been an exciting week. With my kids away at summer camp, I’ve had quiet time in the house to get back to writing. One of my readers gave me back the first draft of my fourth story, “The Gangster’s Cache,” and with it lots of feedback for revisions. So here I am in my […]

Around our house, we’ve been travelling a lot of July and these are some of the fun things we’ve been doing rollerblading and skateboarding around a tiny airport where float planes and biplanes like to take off and stopping at the smoothie stand for primo milkshakes watching my garden turn into the land of lillies […]

So June has arrived and with it my gorgeous garden, that has taken seven years to come into its own. I loved to be outside, especially on nice days, when the sun heats everything up. This month in particular, is the best one for gardening. Every plant seems to be shouting, “notice me!” and with […]

It’s been a bit of a rough week. I got my first negative review, and it’s taken me a few days to process it but then I went into a school today, and met a boy named Ethan, who told me he is writing a joke book. And he told me jokes from it. I […]

It was a great thing to be asked about teacher guides for my books yesterday. This crazy journey to be published author is leading me in so many directions that I’ve been wanting to go for the last 10 years (since writing my series).