

Belly to the Rain Kids!
Please enjoy this guest post from my dear friend and poet Terre Compton. To my surprise and joy, a baby bunny cautiously roamed our yard...


Belly to the Rain
Buster at nap time, before the rain. I make New Year’s resolutions every year, and I make of a lot of them so that I can at least check...


In Honor of Smoky
Aiden and Smoky Rachel, Aiden, Smoky, Gary He was a six-week old Malamute, a grey puff ball that looked like a baby bear. We called him...


Sisters
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. Elizabeth Fishel Sisters My sisters and I all look alike. We also sound alike....


Poem in Your Pocket Day
In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, here’s one of my favorites. The song is one I sometimes sing to myself during a writing break. Thank...


The Heroic PB and J
I took personal interest in the story about Ashley Jiron, a restaurant owner who noticed that someone had been going through her garbage....

Mexican Coffee
Early in my novel The Second Crack Anne makes her sister Suz Mexican Coffee, impressing her twin with the mini fireworks display and rich...


A Confession
I hate to admit this. After all, I spent years researching and writing a novel that explores Mandela’s effect, in one way or another, on...


Why I Write
When I wrote The Second Crack I wanted to explore what drives us to help each other – to help our sister or nephew, to help our neighbor,...