It’s been a rough couple weeks.November is always a tough time, with report cards and evening parent conferences that some days require me to be at school for 12 hours straight. And this year, my district decided the first trimester didn’t have as many...
Chris Fries — this post is for you! (Or inspired by you, at least.)Last week, I posted a blog about “fitting it all in” — how I juggle a teaching job, a writing career, and a family. Chris commented on how intense it all was and wondered: What...
When local author and fellow KidLit Author’s Club member Ellen Jensen Abbott mentioned that the third book in her WATERSMEET trilogy was releasing this month, I asked if I could host her here at In High Spirits.In particular, I wanted to pick her brain about the...
One of my Facebook friends posted an article about the Bender Family on my timeline this weekend, asking if I’d ever heard of their story before. I’m sure she thought of me because of the connection to Spiritualism. (She read my book We Hear the Dead about...
Gotta leave some time formy new passion: sushi!People ask me all the time how I manage to fit it all in – writing and family and a full time job teaching.The fact is, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning, and I can’t get it done. You might be...
