“Wow,” I said, feeling a sudden frisson. “That’s funny. We have a chihuahua that looks exactly like Bruiser Woods.” I pulled out my phone, and showed her a picture of our fawn-colored chihuahua, Joni. When we’d adopted her six months ago, she’d charmed us. She had an outgoing and sweet personality; in spite of the fact she’d been rescued from a house teeming with thirty chihuahuas breeding and vying for food. We were told she was about four, and had almost certainly had at least one litter. One of the people at the adoption agency had assured us, “She really knows how to work a room.”

“I’ll text you,” Breanna said just as the theater went dark for Act Two.

I read and loved Joyce Moyer Hostetter’s historical story Blue, which has become a classic, become required reading for many schools, and has even inspired a play. On her website, she says that she writes about tough topics because she is trying to understand the world’s sorrows. I so admire the way she addresses these tough topics in such an authentic and straightforward way. For this month’s blogpost, I’m honored to have the opportunity to ask her some questions about her excellent and thought-provoking new book, Equal, which is the final book in her popular Baker’s Mountain series.

When we started thinking about music for the ceremonies, the girls said they’d love for their dad to play guitar, but he has FOB responsibilities and, besides that, he gets stage fright when he plays in front of people.

I wrote my first novel, Eleanor Hill, about my grandmother who would have been 126 this March. It’s a fictionalized story, based on her letters and photos, about her young adulthood in Atlantic and New Bern around 1910.

I’ve taken up watercolors as a method for being mindful and keeping my anxiety at bay during Covid times. Read more about my experience.

Read more about the turtle nest on Caswell Beach.

One Week of the Heart Novella is Out Now!

A Blogpost about sea turtles

A Blogpost from Coronavirus Isolation