Category: Scribbles

Emma

A black-haired girl with a bun on top of her head wears a blue jumper and holds a purple peony slipper

I wrote a picture book manuscript a while back about a girl named Emma who gets into a bit of trouble with a magical slipper. So, this is me trying […]

Fibonacci

This picture shows swirling feathers in bronze and silver. The word "Fibonacci" sits at the top.

a poem, inspired by conversation with my middle child (the one who is all into programming and mathematics) Neither random Nor entirely ordered Spirals And Dots Synced In Dancing Rhythmic […]

2020 Successes

on a purple and blue background sits Hope Gardens, Songs of Healing, Leaving Hope, and "The Aersyla Tree," an illustration of a scene from Songs of Healing.

Children’s author Julie Hedlund challenged participants of her 12 Days of Christmas for Writers series to post 2020 SUCCESSES (rather than resolutions) on our blogs this year. She believes traditional […]

#SixWordStory

A picture to serve as inspirtation for a #sixwordstory--A crown flames out with golden dust. It sits atop two ancient looking books on a wooden table.

Magic Library More powerful than crowns. Twitter introduced me to six word stories (Specifically, @MQuigley1963 did. Wonderful author to follow. She’s so encouraging.) She usually starts them with a picture, […]