The keys to life
Sitting in my office today. Remembered it’s my father’s birthday. He would have been 79 years old. I’d be lying if I said I only...
Remembering The Chief
Chief Lawrence Reilly is dead. We called him The Chief. Everybody did. I did, to my husband, friends, family, anybody who read my book,...
Where I was... Memories of 9-11
On September 11, 2001 I was sleeping when my telephone rang. It was my mother, telling me that a plane had just crashed into the World...
Writer's Digest: Read the interview here
On Friday I booked my travel to NYC for the Writer's Digest annual conference in August. It still doesn't seem real that I won the grand...
Writer's Digest picks its winner...
And it's American Boys! I received the call this morning and was barely listening after the first minute, the minute the caller told me...
Things you can do…
Greetings! I hope everybody is having a safe and fun summer. My children and I just returned from a whirlwind trip back east (Philly...
A puzzle's missing pieces
Let's try something here. I am going to write something and I want you to try to figure out, specifically, what I am saying. I want all...
"…one more way for people to know that war costs lives…"
These days I keep finding myself in deep reflection. It sneaks up on me, truthfully, between helping my kids with homework, making...
A tale of two executive orders...
In 1965 the United States started sending mostly young men to a little sliver of a country nobody had ever heard of a decade earlier, to...
Excerpt: The Mother
This Mother's Day I will be thinking of how blessed I am to be a mother and how I can't imagine my life without my little boys--how...