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Dancing Home

Today is a very special day in my life as an editor.  The first book I edited—Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada and her son, Gabriel M. Zubizarreta—was published today by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing Division.     Dancing Home is a story for middle-grade readers […]

July 12, 2011

Editing, Freelance, Publishing, Work, Young Married Mom

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Story Time!

Jacob, how about you pick a book to read?     All of them?  All right.   Yup, he’s definitely my son.

June 3, 2011

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Publishing, Young Married Mom

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Git ‘Er Done.

A short time ago I mentioned that if I could pick a mothering mantra, it would be “If God puts you to it, God will get you through it.” I still stand by this; grace has simply overflowed in the last year and a half, through getting married, being pregnant, and having Jacob. However, if […]

March 14, 2011

Editing, Faith, Freelance, Marriage, Modern Perspectives, Parenthood, Publishing, Young Married Mom

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