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Warning: This post is a series of ramblings. Read at your own risk. And if you know my children, please don’t tell them that I rambled in public, for I know I will never hear the end of it. (I … Continue reading →

For the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about two things: bullies and quotes. Good quotes have such a way of giving strength to words by using so few of them to make a point, and often, … Continue reading →

Since I last wrote, I have been thinking about the other student I spoke of.  Although his story also begins on a day that is different, like Iankel’s, it is a story I will probably never know.  I can only … Continue reading →

I know this sounds contradictory to the title, but sometimes bad things happen.  Sometimes a bunch of them happen right in a row.  And sometimes, there is nothing you can do to stop them. When I woke up at camp … Continue reading →

Everything has a story. Around the age of ten, I started to notice things about people I hadn’t noticed before. Like how Michelle got to play outside way after dark and I had to be home by the time the … Continue reading →

My dad was an inventor. This profession might make you think he was a complicated man, filled with complex ideas and a stash of machines and inventions waiting patiently for the missing pieces or epiphanies that would allow them to … Continue reading →

People are strange.  Writers are even stranger. I think most people go through life fully aware of the people, things, and events that surround them. They appreciate these things to various degrees and interact with them depending on their interest … Continue reading →

  “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” By: Robert Frost Excerpt from: The Road Not Taken Books are addictive.  I don’t mean the books … Continue reading →

I am so excited to start talking with readers and writers! I have a lot of ideas to help you start thinking about characters, plots, conflicts, motivations, and much, much more. I hope you will tune in every other Monday, … Continue reading →