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An ADHD Recovering People-Pleaser Negotiates Chores With Her Teens

Learning how to make our own way within community and contribution

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Lessons in Coping With Scarcity and Uncertainty

What the book does show is the need to help each other out when we’re in trouble. Roxy, Rufus, and Renae don’t just befriend the other raccoons — they help another mom and kit out of a bad jam. In turn, they’re helped out of their own jams.

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Raccoon Retreat: Baby Raccoon Dystopia

As Raccoon Retreat, the sequel to Raccoon Rescue, heads into production, I’m recalling exactly what an unexpected slog it was. As I wrote when I finished its first draft, endings are almost always more difficult to write than beginnings or even middles. I like to watch stories unfold; coming

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One Way a Free Book Exchange Helps Indie Authors — and Literacy

I haven’t been putting a lot of attention towards marketing lately, either for Raccoon Rescue or for Raccoon Retreat — at least, not yet. So it was a lovely surprise when a friend sent me a series of pictures she’d taken, getting a copy of Raccoon Rescue stocked in

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Coexistence Perspectives From Wildlife Experts

[Back when I had a Facebook account] I follow[ed] a lot of wildlife rehabbers. Like, A LOT. More than just the cute animal pics they share, these folks are a wealth of knowledge about animal species, human-wildlife conflict, and what it takes to rehab. They’re a great source

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Raccoons, Teachers, Drag Queens… and Me

Children’s Book Week (the 100th anniversary, yet!) snuck up on me this year. I should have created a raft of clever social media posts around Raccoon Rescue and my other projects in the children’s book world but… I didn’t. I did, however, wear red on Wednesday, May