Author of The Maeve Chronicles

Fairytales: One Antidote to Bullying

“Life is no fairytale,” people say, meaning there is a dearth of happy endings. But that last traditional line “and then they lived happily ever after” is not what the […]

What time is it, anyway?

The turn of the decade hadn’t registered at all until someone’s holiday card wished me a happy new one. I’m afraid my first thought was: oh, no! Not another decade! […]

Brother Blue: alive in the story

We think of stories as words, whether spoken or written. But where do those words come from? When the last word is spoken, where do they linger? Where do they […]