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Here is it fall again and all my teacher friends have gone back to work. I miss teaching–being with kids and having colleagues to share each day’s stories with, but now I have something I also value,…

I just read Madeline L’Engle’s Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art. She was one intelligent, well-read woman, but I can also imagine sitting down to a cup of coffee with her and talking about the…

Yesterday when I came home from a little shopping trip I entered my home and thought to myself, “Something stinks.” But I had groceries to unload, dinner to prepare, a short story to write and tennis to…

I just finished reading Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life. It’s a skinny little volume and, as I expected, is packed with pictures of the writer struggling in a hundred ways to produce work that reads as free and…

Follow the link to the Just Moms website. There you’ll find an easy way to enter the book givaway–just upload a picture of your kids enjoying summer fun. The reviews are continuing to praise this book written…