The best birthday celebration (in Napa, CA) ever!
A few weeks ago, I went to Napa with my friends to celebrate our birthdays. We’ve all known each other since grammar school or high school and we have a tradition of…
Are You Just Too Busy?
That’s the question my friend Joanne asks in her book Just Too Busy – Taking Your Family on a Radical Sabbatical. Her book is the story of her own family’s…
A weekend to remember
It really was. When my friend Jen surprised me and told me she was flying out from NJ from my birthday a couple weeks ago, I knew we’d have a great time, but…
Little bits and pieces of happiness…
“I have to tell you the best thing,” my daughter said the other night, smiling. She’d just gotten home from youth group and finished brushing her teeth and putting her pajamas…
A Man Named Ted
*Post originally published in 2009 and in the book Kirtsy Takes a Bow – A Celebration of Women’s Online Favorites. There’s a man named Ted who lives in a senior home…
The three men in the coffee shop (a story about friendship)
They sit there–the three of them–at the table by the window in the coffee shop I often write at. It seems like they’re always there, whether it’s at the beginning of the month or…
While I was away…
Hi everyone! I just got back from vacation and am slowly adjusting to reality. :) I’m sorry I didn’t have a chance to tell you in the first place that…
A Children’s Book Giveaway You Don’t Want to Miss – Nugget on the Flight Deck
One of my writing friends, Patricia Newman, who’s a very talented children’s book author and a Co-Regional Advisor for SCBWI in North/Central California, recently had another picture book published… and…