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Sweet spring Hold me close Kiss away the chafe of a cruel, indifferent winter Love me well Your balmy air on my skin Help me forget the chill I see you close, A wide-eyed moon smiling down A [...]

There are times in a person’s life when things happen that can’t be explained by reason. Paul getting knocked off this horse on the road to Damascus. Lamp oil that should only last [...]

Pleased and honored to announce that TSSOE has been nominated for a Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers! And among some pretty impressive company too. I just finished reading the [...]

I found out that Justice Scalia had died when a liberal friend texted me to say, “Too bad we live in different cities, or we could have a goodbye party for Scalia now.” It was dark [...]

You know that thing you want to do, but which you’re afraid might not turn out well? The thing that scares you? The worst failure is in not going for it. Do it today. Follow your heart. It [...]

Deliberately generic. The painters are almost done!  

THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY,  a young adult novel about an undocumented teenager, has been called “Must-read YA” (Bookish), “What’s hot in YA,” (School Library [...]

I am: Staring in the well, searching for the bottom Asleep in a vale, cheek on a lace-gloved hand, nestled in forget-me-nots. I leave my wishes like offerings atop a roadside altar, somewhere far [...]