To the majority of people, boarding school is a foreign concept that can only be understood by watching the ever so insightful Nickelodeon show, Zoe 101. Whenever I tell anyone I go to a boarding school they can’t help but ask, “what on earth did you do that was bad enough to get sent away from home?”. However, much to their disappointment of being deprived of a riveting story of whatever shenanigan I got caught doing, this...

Okay there is no excuse. I’ve been having way too much fun with our children. The week before school started I took our youngest daughter, Halle, to Whistler British Columbia. She wanted to go bungee jumping. We started the trip off by zip lining down Blackcomb Mountain with Ziptrek Ecotours. Our wonderful guides, Tarrah and Kari  (I hope I spelled their names right as their card went through the wash) couldn’t have been better. We were...

I have not blogged for the last few weeks because I have been traveling. I thought maybe I could do it, write while away, but alas I am not Wonder Woman, and the call for adventure was much stronger than the call to write. We went to England and France. Our middle daughter Leigh and I. We toured, we shopped, we cooked, we hiked, and we even river rafted. I have not been to either of these countries in 19 years and it was our...

Is it too much coffee, or  just the thought of my first published book, Hush, being made into a movie that’s got me so jumpy? I wrote Hush as a fun way to communicate with my daughter, Blakely, when she went off to boarding school. My goal was to create a fun, quick read, she and her friends would enjoy when not buckled down at their desks perusing their more serious studies. I mixed together her school (where all three of our girls will...

For those of you who don’t know who Halle is, let me tell you. She is our 13-year-old daughter and the first publicly published author in our house. She is also a character in all three of the Lakeview Novels I have written or am in the process of writing. She wrote this poem last week for extra credit and I thought it well worth a blog post. Possibilities Can you tame That which is not yours Can you gain Without lifting a finger Can...