I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.