I haven’t been sleeping well lately. And no, I can’t blame it on Annalise. She has her okay nights and her excellent nights, but generally she lets me have plenty of sleep. Annoyingly, I am doing this to myself. I lie awake nights, trying not to wake Ivan on the bed beside me, thinking about
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She sleeps. I love how she throws her arms up over her head…she makes sleep look sooo good. I love watching her face when she is falling asleep, marvel at how she moves in half a second’s time from a red face, scrunched-up nose, and a mouth wailing her frustration to a look of utter
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I said a while ago that I didn’t know which would come first, my book or my baby. Turns out the baby beat the book by a little over two months, thanks to a publisher flexible enough to roll back the final edits until I was able to participate in the process. What happens when
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Perhaps as part of my nesting instinct during these last weeks of pregnancy–a writers’ version of nesting–I have been attempting to organize and categorize all my old Word documents currently stashed haphazardly on flash drives. Some of what I find is cheesy and lame–me trying to copy other writers I read somewhere and not doing
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Where have I been? Editing, mostly. I have a new memoir coming out this spring with Elk Lake Publishing, and I am currently working on the 22nd revision–though in all honesty, I stopped counting long ago. I call my upcoming book Turtle Heart. It tells the story of a friendship that changed me. My friend
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