I feel a twist coming on… Where’s that novel you’ve been working on forever, you might ask. Well, it’s simmering right along. Let’s call it my Texas novel because I’m not ready to share the title (which I am stoked about). Y’all (See what I did there? In Louisville, where I grew up, there’s a …Read More

I finished three books in the past week that made me cry. I pride myself on not being a crier over fictional stories–at least I don’t cry because I stay the hell away from stories that might leave me sobbing. Films are often the worst culprits. Sometimes I get trapped into watching tragic films with …Read More

Frances Hodgson Burnett had serious issues with the children of the Edwardian British upper class. Both The Little Princess and The Secret Garden featured wealthy girls whose parents had some connection to British rule in India. Sarah Crewe (Little Princess) is abandoned at an English boarding school (Miss Minchin’s) by her father and spoiled Mary …Read More