Tag: hope
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September 27, 2022
A Very Mercy Christmas goes out into the world today. I will be walking around the neighborhood putting this story of friendship and pigs, starlight and singing, neighbors and toast into Little Free Libraries here and there. It cheers me up to do this. And I hope whoever finds a copy will be cheered, too.…
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December 17, 2019
To the lovely human being who handed me this note during a signing at Next Chapter Bookstore, and then walked away: thank you. I wanted you to know that your words matter to me. I hung them on the Christmas tree. I’m honored if you found hope in my stories. Hope is what stories have…
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March 14, 2019
I was up this morning, early, working on a story; and it is a mess. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know how it’s going to happen. But yet, I keep showing up each morning. I’ve been writing for 24 years now (!) and I’ve learned a few things: 1. Nothing happens…
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October 12, 2017
I never get tired of thinking about Emily Dickinson’s words about hope—that “thing with feathers,” and how it sings “the tune without the words/and never stops at all.” I am going to journey out into the world this weekend (to Connecticut and New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and try to sing that tune.…
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May 2, 2013
Twice now, I have been lucky enough to receive little Hope Senders in the mail. These guys are small, winged pieces of original art. They are laminated. You can put them in your pocket or your purse and carry them with you anywhere. They are good company. And now that I have two of them,…