My dad generally liked to spend Father’s Day at home. We’d go to church and come home and my sisters and I would give him our homemade...

I'm excited to announce that SCATTERED LIGHT , the sequel to WINTER LIGHT , my IPPY Gold Medal in YA book, will be published in less than...

by Janet Clare Buy NOW! Janet Clare ’s newest book, TRUE HOME , sings of love amid human imperfections of a kind we all know too well,...

by Cynthia Newberry Martin Every once in a while an author perfectly captures the reality of marriage at a specific, precipitous time in...

When working on my memoir, BLISS ROAD ( Vine Leaves Press ), one of my early readers asked if narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

I loved meeting so many of you this year, and keeping up with those of you whom I’ve known for a long time now. Whatever your...

by Joanna Kadish Joanna Kadish writes beautifully about the brutal truths of living a thousand lives in a single lifetime in FLIRTING...

If you’ve lost family due to differences, I hope you reconnect with the similarities between you and reclaim the love they offer. And...

Happy birthday to my oldest sister, Dee (middle)! I say “oldest,” but there’s only 3 years difference between us, with my sister, Sue...

Register NOW! This is exactly what my BLISS ROAD neurodiverse family needed back in the 1970s! Stanford University Neurodiversity...

It’s my husband’s birthday today, and while he’s not a social media guy and will never see this post, I wanted to share his marvelousness...

For as gut-wrenching as the stories we write can be, there’s nothing quite like the pivotal moments in our real lives to remind us about...

by Alycia Vreeland Alycia Vreeland’s memoir, BABY DARLIN', is not only a testament to humans’ tenacity, will to survive and ability to...

Buy NOW! If you’d asked me when I was 30 how well I knew myself, I would have said, “Very well! Life taught me otherwise. Fortunately,...

Buy NOW! A year has passed since BLISS ROAD was published. In that time, I've talked with dozens of readers who've found the book...

by Nikki Patin Often how we come to experience other people’s lives is not by learning facts about them, but by listening to how they...

Order NOW! Thanks @Kristy Crisler and @Cheshire Library for hosting my BLISS ROAD book reading and signing. And to the fab crowd who...

Order BLISS ROAD now! Drum roll, please…. BLISS ROAD is now out in the world! Thanks to all of my advance readers and reviewers who’ve...

Preorder BLISS ROAD now! While creating the compilation of graphics for this final 52nd — and last — post in the 52 Reasons to be...

BLISS ROAD, June 6, preorder now When I was a kid, we used to celebrate Mother’s Day by giving our mom homemade cards, making her...