ON THE VERGE

What seems like a million years ago I was working in Lexington, Kentucky at the county board of education's gifted and talented departme...

They're eager to get started, game for anything I suggest. Make up a character? They're in. Chart out story arcs with marker on post...

Friday I drove with my writing friend Natalie down to Marietta, Ohio to watch her cousin Andi get surprise-proposed to.  I had never wa...

The arguments you have with your mother or the raw inner workings of your marriage. Conversations with your kids, unless it’s a funny anec...

the only way you can fail is to not write. I have been thinking a lot lately about motivation. Last week at the monthly Ohio SCBWI Society...

and I am having a hard time focusing on my writing. I sit down to work and I think of him curled up? sprawled out? Sleeping? hiding in th...

A high school student asked me at the rally. She was doing a class project, an interview. Why are you here? She asked my husband first, an...