Remember Michelle Shocked, back in the 1980s, singing, “When I grow up I want to be an old woman .  .  .  .” I always loved that song, when I was 40. Now maybe not so much. I’ve spent several hours this past month having a very large, very strong massage therapist do torturous things […]

When I published Beyond the Stones of Machu Picchu: Folk Tales and Stories of Inca Life, I showed it around to a number of my publishing colleagues. I got a lot of positive feedback. I’d never published a children’s book before, but I was so charmed by the subject matter and the illustrations, and it […]