The Warming Season – A Novel
“It’s 2011. A record hot summer. Robby just graduated high school and is working again as a lifeguard at the […]
The Gift
“They are infinitely grateful to have been given such a gift. And all the parties coexist in the world happily, […]
Prayer for Eighty Candles
“Who needs a cake with eighty-candles — waxy-stiff and tilted like gravestones? I’m just too old for a party. I […]
Three Day Wind
“She must even have hoped to some day be at such a place…. But she permits herself ambivalence; to feel […]
The Fire Next Door
“Laura is sure she had heard the exhale of a groan tonight; the faint whisper of ‘please…leave me alone,’ escaping […]
Families Are Funny
“She loves you already, silly,” Sarah says as she smooths over Lily’s hair and scoots her daughter out the front […]
I am writer, mediator, attorney, volunteer, depending on the day. First and foremost, though, I am the mother of two great kids, two teenagers, not yet fully launched.