Literary Reflections

There’s nothing like a festive tale to get you in the Christmas mood and this month’s Essential Reading recommendations include a modern spin on a classic holiday story. Check that…

Parenting a child with early Alzheimer’s-like symptoms leaves little energy for anything else, I discovered, so I shifted my priority from recreating what had been, to nurturing what could be.…

My plays are colored by motherhood. My poetry, a fairly recent undertaking, comes back to themes of mothering again and again. My two girls were with me throughout the entirety…

Sometimes a story is so big it can’t be contained in one volume but needs a whole series to allow the plot to unwind. This month we recommend four series…

Rather than force a return to the poems I was working on, I needed to write differently. I needed to intentionally mark the rupture between past and present, before becoming…

This month we’re all about motherhood and our reading recommendations include a novel about a reluctant mother, one guide for mothers-to-be and another for parents in the trenches. Enjoy!

The travelers were much younger than I am now, from different countries, and different time periods, but they had all arrived at a turning point in their lives and needed…

This month’s Essential Reading recommendations include both modern and classic young adult novels. These stories of adventure and romantic love are just too good to leave on the YA shelves.…

I used to be precious about my writing time. Everything needed to be just so before I could start laying one word after another. My sacred place had to be…

That pretentious girl, who rolled her eyes at her mom’s Danielle Steele novels, would have scoffed at the mom I’ve become, engaged in a heated debate with my kids about…

We’ve chosen five of our favorite reads about fathers for this months Essential Reading. They include: a daughter’s account of her Hollywood father’s life, a father’s investigation into the food…