I originally posted this to my grief blog: forloveofevelyn.com, but decided to share it here because it deals with depression in addition...

I'm not depressed. I am emotionally challenged. Actually. I'm grieving. And I have PTSD. And I'm depressed. It's a veritable Happy Meal...

I'm doing that thing. That thing you're never supposed to do. That thing I have been warned against and keep doing anyway, where I get...

They say life imitates art. I sincerely hope that isn't true. When my 18-year-old daughter unexpectedly died in her sleep two months...

I have always been a lover of words and those things only words can build ⁠— stories, books, the voices of people with extraordinary...

Books take a long time to birth. To give you somewhat of an idea of the buildup to this moment, I began writing Resurrection Girls at the...

In Resurrection Girls, main character, Olivia, is grappling with a family deeply paralyzed by their grief several years after the...

The first time someone described the relationship between my main characters in Resurrection Girls as "toxic", it took me aback. I'm not...

If you're going to read my novels, if you're going understand me as a writer, as a mother, as a person, then you should know my story....