I think ideas are as amazing as dreams. Trying to figure out where your dreams came from, or why you’ve dreamed about an ex-boyfriend who is suddenly a French poodle flying from South Africa to Mendocino, is kind of fascinating. Ideas are just as fascinating, and if you’re a writer, you get to connect the…
I have a friend who asked how I can write stories about foster children when I haven’t been one. A fair question. The answer I gave her was empathy and having gone through a training program, and then spending time with them. Does that make me an expert? Far from it. But, in fact, I…
Children are fascinating and can be resourceful and capable if we let them. They can also be underestimated and overprotected. Frankly, in the great big world with all its perceived bogeymen and dangers, overprotection is often a caregivers’ knee-jerk reaction. Have you ever watched kids though, as if they were exhibits? If you’re going to…
