Choosing People Over My Phone. Won’t You Join Me?
I sat on a chair facing the front windows of the coffee shop, which is always a hazardous position, since I tend to people-watch rather than write. And, sure enough, within five minutes I was studying the mother and daughter
Making the Moments Last
This week, my eldest started kindergarten, and my youngest grew out of her newborn sleepers. The fact that my five-year-old once wore her ten-week-old sister’s sleepers (as did her middle sister) made both transitions even more acute. I remember laying
The Alliance $1.99 E-Book Sale!
Hey, friends! Hope you're having a good week! I'm just popping in to let you know that my award-winning novel, The Alliance, prequel to The Divide, is now only $1.99 across ALL e-book platforms! To celebrate, I am offering an organic tea
Can’t See Eden for the Fall
My best friend and I stood in the perennial bed in front of her river cottage, looking out over her farm. Ducks waddled and honked as they splashed in the baby pool. The black mare twitched her tail while grazing
My Favorite Day
I don’t even remember how it began. "My favorite day" was just one of those adorable, grammatically incorrect sayings a child utters and her parents cannot soon forget. Since then, I have tried to get my daughters to keep an eye
The Magnum Opus & Motherhood
Sitting up at night with my infant child, my feet rocking the glider on their own, plots begin to stir and thicken as characters bob to the surface in the sleepy cauldron of my mind. Tomorrow, I think, swaddling my daughter
The Truth About “Happily Ever After”
Barely 9 p.m. and my husband and I were sprawled across the bed as if we’d been shot. “I don’t even know what day it is,” he said. “It’s Satur—" I paused. "No, wait . . . it’s Friday.” “I’ll just be glad
Turn Around & They’re Grown
Seven years ago, my husband and I went out to Wisconsin for a wedding. During the rehearsal dinner, we sat across from one of his relatives, who had three children under five. The man’s eyes were bloodshot, and two of
The Alliance Series Has BIG News!
Last Monday, after ineffectually dodging my newborn's projectile spit-up and tucking my older daughters into bed, who were frustrated because "what was taking me so long," I sat down on the couch with my Mother's Milk tea and a pile
The Divide Launch Party & Giveaway!
Well, we're here, friends! Less than three days until my fourth novel, The Divide, officially hits shelves! This novel--this entire series, actually--has stretched me creatively, emotionally, spiritually, and physically, and yet my main character, Leora Ebersole, experiences that same level