Available here on May 10, 2025
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Excerpt
When they finally got up the courage to face Evelyn’s family, Evelyn’s father sat Jens down and explained the way of it.
“Women need caring for,” he said. “They are the gentle sex. You got to watch out for ‘em,” he said. He looked at his son-in-law, pleading with words and without words that Jens would be good to his daughter, and Jens answered as best he could with his eyes.
I’ve been a lawyer, board president, preschool teacher and middle school teacher, friend, spouse, mother, and now grandmother, but one thing has never changed: from the time I could hold a pencil, I’ve been a writer of stories, a spinner of tales - often involving dragons (literal or metaphorical). I believe we are here to care for each other and this earth. Most of all, I believe in kindness and laughter. (And music and good books, and time spent with children and dogs. And chocolate.)
