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A Purging of Pity and Fear
My parents were English to the bone. While they didn’t agree about many basics, there was one value so imbedded in both that it seldom needed words.
Feelings are not quite nice!
Healing My Heart
Lately I’ve been responding to a question no one has asked. Or at least a question no one has asked for a long time. It’s one I encountered often, though, when I was out in the world supporting my books. The question . . . why did I choose to write for children?
Why Write for Children?
It’s a question I was asked many times when I was out in the world supporting my books. Why do you write for children?
Serendipity
Every single day I give thanks for the multiple kinds of serendipity that gave me my career.
It is Good
I began this blog in 2012 at the request of an editor. She wanted me to write about my just-published novel in verse, Little Dog Lost.
The Genius for Happiness
The genius for happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius
Your Opponent
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net
The Power of My Enemy
The moment I have defined another being as my enemy, I lose part of myself, the complexity and subtlety of my vision.