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…

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…

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…