If You Don’t Want to Go to Sleep, Close Your Eyes: Chapter 2

…The path home was a cold and dark one. I wouldn’t miss this long walk.  Maybe things would be better when spring came.  The sky was dark as clouds gathered, hiding the starlight. I kicked off my dusty shoes outside our home and went inside. Mother tied down the last wrap over the top of the roof. I had left it open since the last moon. Tonight’s Hunger Moon had grown full, but I could not see its light.

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If You Don’t Want to Go to Sleep, Close Your Eyes: Chapter 1

…The Northern Lake had been receding a little more each year since we had settled in the quiet village of Sleep to raise and trade uruses and the milk they made.  The water was almost gone. Most of the others had taken their herd south before the winter, where the lakes were still full. The families who chose to stay in Sleep were muffled by their uncertainty.  Why were they still here?

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That time I published my first book about discovering new senses and then fell in love

Today, I celebrate two years since I published my first book.  The title came from a passing comment my daughter, Ansley, made to me as we were lying beside one another, trying to fall asleep on a rainy spring night in 2016. She said to me, “Mommy, how do I stay awake?” I said to her, “are you sure that’s what you want to do?” She nodded her tired little head and snuggled it into my arm. I explain, “Well […]

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