James & Jax

I’m a list-maker extraordinaire, and I love having a list of goals most of all. I am the kind of person who needs visual reminders of what needs to be done (or what I would really like to be done) in order to stay focused and motivated. However, being a list-maker, I set myself up [...]

On September 29, 2009, I began doing something my husband thinks is “creepy” and like something the star of a melodrama would do if she had a terminal illness: I wrote the first of many letters to my son in a pretty (yet sufficiently boyish) spiralbound notebook I bought at Target for $2. Jax was [...]

For 25 years, I’ve been writing. When I was 8 years old, my mother gave me a red diary with teddy bears printed all over its cover—and a writer was born. Fast forward to age 13. I wrote my first “novel,” which was actually more of a short story although it was over 50 pages [...]