I’m still thinking about the screenplay idea. The two writers who expressed an interest haven’t gotten back to me, and I think I know why. After two weeks in an online screenwriting course, plus reading some recommended books(Steve, you were right—Robert McKee’s STORY is the Bible.), I have doubts about my book as a movie, too. [...]

My mother’s only sister, Jane, died ten days ago, and this past weekend, her children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews came back to our hometown for her funeral. Gathered in the vestibule of St. Mary’s Church in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, we stared at the slide show of old photos and pored over newspaper clippings arranged [...]

Any fan letter can make my day. But this one struck deeper than most. Traci wrote, “I checked your book out of my local library and read it in one sitting yesterday…as a young single mother it gives me hope it may not be too late for me to find the kind of relationship you [...]