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A (very short) photo essay… Christmas Eve dinner in Alabama! Bucky says Merry Christmas, too! Me with my Papa on Christmas Day — so glad we got to spend it together!

Fact 1: Crafts are more fun when crafted with others. Fact 2: Crafts are WAY more fun when crafted with kids. So, after my balloon-and-trash bag ghost craft were such a Halloween hit with my friend’s adorable girls, I started working up a Christmas craft [Read more…]

In the bleak midwinter,  frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;  Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,  In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Yesterday, I sat in an arena filled with proud families to watch my [Read more…]

In my mind (just as it is in the mind of every author) my book will someday be made into a movie. I have a cast list (my favorites — Judge and Paula would be played by John Goodman and Dolly Parton…tell me you can’t [Read more…]