#2 Daughter is a serious-minded person. I don’t mean dull or humorless; I just mean she doesn’t take things lightly. She works in an office where all the other workers are not just male, they’re defiantly male. They have to display how BOY they are.…

HAPPY MONKEY DAY! I adapted this recipe from Emmy Made, who adapted it from The Mennonite Community Cookbook. It really is 5-Minute Fudge! Before you start, line a pan with parchment paper. The recipe says a 6-8-cup loaf pan (9″ x 5″) but I didn’t…

Friend and fellow writer Dora Abel recommended that I watch THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, so she and Sara and I did. As authors, we loved the visualizations of how we gather bits and pieces and slosh ’em around together until some of ’em stick…