Another day, another fun writing competition! And that feels like a reason to celebrate. I have been largely absent online and in terms of my writing, but Vivian Kirkfield’s #50PreciousWords sparked some much needed inspiration and I decided to send my little story out into the universe. Limited to only 50 words, this competition challenges… Read More #50PreciousWords

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the Japanese art of kintsugi – the act of mending broken pottery with a liquid gold mixture. This method actually highlights cracks and flaws in a decorative, beautiful way – honouring the history of the item – and treating the breakage and repair as part of the object’s… Read More What Is Broken

#FallWritingFrenzy, a contest in which entrants choose one of several provided images and create a story from it in 200 words or less, was created by author and literary agent Kaitlyn Sanchez and is co-hosted with author Lydia Lukidis. I decided to participate and dove in to writing my entry right after the contest was… Read More #FallWritingFrenzy

I knew nothing about fry bread – a dish integral to Indigenous American culture – until two of my food-centric friends brought it up at dinner one night. And for such a seemingly simple food, I’ve found it’s one full of contradictions: sustenance in the face of starvation, but nutritionally lean and cited as a… Read More Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Here in London, we’re in the death throes of summer, and this ballsy broad isn’t leaving without a fight. While 5 day runs of 90+ degree heat may be the norm in some places (and certainly weren’t out of the ordinary where I grew up), this heat hits different in the UK. Our old city… Read More Way Past Mad

You guys, I’m so tired. I’m trying to write and parent and exercise* and eat healthily and fit 28 hours into 24 while still getting enough sleep not to be a Monster Mom the next day. It’s not exactly “working.” Perhaps this is why I was inspired to do a throwback review of sorts, on… Read More Someday

Full disclosure: I am a Jonathan Van Ness stan. I find him an absolute beacon of joy and goodness in an otherwise cynical cess pool of existence. Fuller disclosure: I tend toward the dramatic. I don’t typically gravitate toward celebrity-penned picture books for a variety of reasons I won’t go into here. BUT. Being that… Read More Peanut Goes for the Gold

I came across this book only recently when I found an essay written by its illustrator, Mike Curato, in which he talks about being openly gay in the KidLit community. It’s a concise but nonetheless heart wrenching timeline-esque recount of his journey to being totally and completely – if not completely comfortably – out as… Read More Worm Loves Worm

I remember seeing The Tide and its beautiful cover art propped up in the local indie bookshop window when it first debuted. I kept meaning to pick it up and page through, but then life and other distractions abounded, and I never quite got around to it. Then: pandemic. So, when I saw Clare Helen… Read More The Tide

How are you? Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you’re having a lovely day, treating people as you would like to be treated, and brushing and flossing regularly. I’ve started many blogs in my writing lifetime, always abandoning them in the midst of their beginnings, assuming – right or wrong – no one… Read More Hello!