Don’t you just love spring?  We’ve had an unseasonably cool spring down here in Atlanta.  However, I won’t complain because before I know it, I’ll be cursing a summer heat wave.   Aside from my writing, I love to take photographs.   I’m always snapping a photo of anything and everything.  I...

Yesterday I had one of the proudest moments as a parent.  My demure tween auditioned for a play!!  This is the same child who can barely order a burrito at Moe’s and who doesn’t raise her hand in class.  Late last year, she announced she wanted to try acting.  I...

The splashes of colorful blooms sprouting in my yard are sure indicators that spring is almost here.  Believe it or not, we’ve had daffodils blooming since early February.  I love the pop of color the flowers provide against a dreary winter landscape.  I pull out photos like these when I’m...

In high school, I floated between a few “cliques.”  I ran track, so was sort of a jock.  I took honors classes, so was sort of a braniac and proudly sat with my artsy friends at lunch.  I was definitely confident in my own skin and felt comfortable with who...

I never had Valentine’s Day until I was nineteen years old.  It’s not due to some glamorous notion my parents had that Valentine’s Day was a “Hallmark Holiday” and chose to buck establishment.  The reality was that I grew up in a religion – uhmmm cult -- in which all...

For my latest young adult novel, I needed to give my heroine a hobby with some backstory. I’ve always had an affinity of all things celestial, and thought it would be fun to research, so I gave her, drumroll please… astronomy.  My first in-depth glimpse at the stars was in...