Why Are Identical Twins *Different*?

I was one of the last to know that my twins are identical. Via ultrasound, we knew they shared nothing but the womb–not a sac,

Boo: The Things Parents Don’t Know Are Often The Most Important

I’ll admit it: I was one of those children who tried to memorized the Periodic Table. Today, there are 118 elements on the list. In

Characters on Parade: Crayons Are Out, Cats Are In

Once a year, all the creepy, crawly (or not) storybook characters leap from their pages and parade around my six-year-old twin daughters’ elementary school. As

Louise Erdrich’s Chickadee: “Small Things Have Great Power”

Somehow, I stumbled upon Louise Erdrich’s Chickadee, a middle grade novel, possibly while I was googling around for information on its real-life namesake, my middle

A Review of Two Lovely Berries on Words For Worms!

I can’t express the excitement I felt when I saw the first review of my novel, Two Lovely Berries, on one of my favorite book

Germaphobia: Today, Six Years Ago, and 100 Years Before That

On December 10, 2007, my twins arrived just over three months early. Their extremely premature birth impacted my life in many ways, including by exacerbating