Live With Flair

We’re driving on the highway behind a huge concrete truck. The revolving drum on top the truck mixes the concrete even while on the road.

Today I realize all the ways one might influence an environment. In writing, an author influences the mood of a piece by using primarily sensory

My shy daughter finally befriends a little girl she’s crossed paths with for years but never had the courage to approach. She finally invites the

My amazing agent and I are working together to prepare a manuscript to submit to publishers. (It’s a contemporary adult novel that you’ll hear more

Today, I read my students a single event memoir by Deidra Riggs. I’m asking them to choose a single event–a single moment of their lives–to

This morning, my oldest daughter cries out to her sister, “I’ll race you!” “OK!” the youngest one says, and they’re off! Suddenly, she stops and

An incredible artist, Ted Cantrell, sends my family a piece of his original artwork for our home. From the moment I remove this piece from

Two days ago, I purchase mini almond biscotti for no reason at all. You can’t just eat biscotti, you have to dip it in tea

My youngest daughter tells me today that her friends at school never ask her anything about herself. “I ask about them, but they don’t ask

Today I’m roller skating with my oldest daughter, and I realize that for the first time in all these years, she’s steadying me. It’s one