Sometimes I dream about men who want to kill me. Angry, obnoxious, patronizing men filled with resentment and hurt egos. The other night it was my dad chasing me with a pair of scissors, the week before, it was Arabs threatening me, because I didn’t hide my face and body.

Such dreams always occur when I’m about to speak truth, show myself and share something personal with the world, be it a…

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Tuesday afternoon, someone said, "You're a study in self-denial."

The woman began to weep, in spite of herself, pressing her lips together, taking her gaze toward the ceiling and away from the face of her friend.  She questioned herself aloud, "Why have I always denied myself what I want? No one has ever said that I can't have things."

Pondering her own question, she awakened from sleep the following day and realized she hadn't recently asked herself what she wanted,…

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A cup of coffee and some Christmas cookies whit Emily and her Big Big World  as a background is a perfect end of a day. Day that started with mumbling over my alarm, a headache and no understanding of why on earth I am so tired if went to bed at ten turned out to be a very good one. I did so much and things just went… It was a pleasant change after my two bad day session from which Friday was a definite ‘left leg out of bed’ day.

                I had to turn my works around…

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Although my currently published books don’t use a lot of food, the new YA novel I’m working on, Letters From Camp, revolves around a summer camp for kids with behavioral and emotional problems, many of which are food-related.

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Summer has doused us with more than a few steamy hot and humid days here in Michigan this season already...and that's something we're not use to in both June and July! In fact much of these months have been very strange since we've bounced from quite cold to terribly hot and then fell into the hot and humid as if we were the deep South rather than the upper Midwest.



I wonder where the weather will go next? That is a difficult question with what we've had already this year. We'll just… Continue

"You know what your problem is?"

"What?"



"You're giving your pussy away on a platter."



"I'm what?"



"You're coming across as desperate."



"I am… Continue

One particularly warm evening in June, I observed my 12-year-old daughter having, shall I say, a cranky moment? No, it had been a cranky day – maybe two. Not that she wasn’t the cranky sort, or didn’t have it in her to be cranky, but her “spells” generally did not last long. She had always been a child with “bounce back” ability, meaning that if she got mad or upset at something or someone, it didn’t last very long. I always admired her greatly for this (actually marveled at this) as it was… Continue