a meditation on absence
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” So wrote a Miss Strickland in 1832. Surely this is one of the most widely recognized…
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a story about family
As with most worthwhile things, it took longer than expected. Like the rest of you, I usually have more going on than I would…
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Twenty-three years ago, my dreams came true. Atheneum accepted my stories–stories that I’d been writing in almost complete secrecy for a couple…
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