Category: Family
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Mitten State Love
I was born and raised in Michigan and lived there (mostly) until I was 24. Then I moved just south to Ohio, where I lived for 13 years. I have a big place in my heart for these two Midwestern states, and writing my book, which is set in both, as well as on the…
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The End of the Quest
I have a confession to make. I’m not really an art person. But in the summer of 1998, while vacationing with most of our extended family on my dad’s side, I saw a print of a 1921 painting, and I fell in love. We were at a shop somewhere in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, browsing and…
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Stitching Together a Book
When I was in college, my mom and my aunt took up the hobby of quilting. More specifically, they did strip quilting, which is basically making quilts via assembly line. I decided I wanted on that bandwagon, too, so I asked them to teach me. Both of their moms also quilted, so we had some…
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Lia Mack and Waiting for Paint to Dry
I am lucky enough to have a family member in the writing business! Here, my cousin Lia Mack shares a little about how she became a writer and what it meant to her to write her first novel. When did you take up writing as a hobby? Hobby? Them’s fightin’ words, ya know! Joking aside, I…
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Another Kind of Loneliness
Being a writer can be very isolating. I can’t tell you how many times I wished I was cuddled on the couch next to my husband, watching a movie or reruns of “The Office.” But instead, I was sequestered in the other room, furiously typing out my story. Even last Saturday, I was upstairs at…
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E.G.
Our family has been no stranger to The Unexpected over the past couple of years. And yet, this COVID-19 crisis, and quarantine, and a quarter of the school year left unfinished, and now my 8-week furlough from my still-new job, still took us by surprise. When we found ourselves suddenly in a position of having…
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Written on My Heart (or my leg)
A little over a year ago, I did a crazy thing. Well, I wasn’t alone. WE did a crazy thing. The conversation went a little like this. Mom: Your brother has an idea. Me: Oh boy. What? Mom: He wants us all to get coordinating family tattoos. Would you be on board with that? Me:…
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Boston, 1990
Our family vacation in the summer of 1990 was a road trip from southeast Michigan, through Ohio and Pennsylvania, to Boston, with a quick stop at the Statue of Liberty. What a whirlwind! I never really thought about it until I had kids of my own, but that was a pretty ambitious road trip, considering…
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Cherish the Moments
I am the mother of four children under the age of ten, and if I had a dollar for every time someone told me to cherish these moments because the time goes by quickly, I could fund the research to build a time machine so I could actually hold onto these days forever. This is…
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Double Rainbow
Every year on December 10, I take a nostalgic look at this photo, and I share it on social media (which for me, is just Facebook). I can’t believe it’s been seven years since our second daughter was born, and seven years since our doula captured this moment. It is one of the most important…
Andrea Green · Romance Author 