I started 2024 hungry for stories, and I read (and reread) more books this year than I have in a decade or more. A few that have stayed with me, for one reason or another: May 2025 be filled with stories as well, and may we lean into the comfort and the challenge that they […]
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So there I was, scrolling through social media, when an ad popped up on my feed. “Write blog posts 10X faster with robots!” it said. O-kay, I thought. Sure. What could possibly go wrong? A bit of googling later, I’d fallen down the rabbit hole of AI content generation—sites that promise to take the pesky
My essay, “Had motherhood ruined my favorite childhood stories?” is featured in Modern Parent this week. As I snuggled in with my husband and my then-first-grader to watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I looked forward to sharing my childhood memories of Rankin and Bass’ claymation classic. Within five minutes of pressing play, though, all I could think
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“We love the things we love for what they are.” That’s from Robert Frost’s “Hyla Brook.” Variations on the line had been bouncing around in my head for a while before my husband and fellow writer, Larry Hammer, reminded me where it came from. I’d been thinking about Frost (without knowing it was Frost I was
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Bones of Faerie, the first book of my Bones of Faerie trilogy, is about uncontrolled growth: plants that bloom in every season, crops that fight their harvesters, trees that seek human blood and bone to root in. Faerie Winter, the second book of the trilogy, tells the opposite story. It’s about endless winter, failure to
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