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...

Per the request from readers, here is a sample letter you can use to contact your lawmakers. Every representative has an online form you...

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...

Greetings! I hope everybody is having a safe and fun summer. My children and I just returned from a whirlwind trip back east (Philly...

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...

As some of you know Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) is leading the charge now on getting 74 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It's...

These days I keep finding myself in deep reflection. It sneaks up on me, truthfully, between helping my kids with homework, making...

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...

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...

This is a painful post for me to write. If you've read my book American Boys and you are following the ordeal of getting the Department...