Sanctuary Trade Paperback: $13.50 E-book: $2.84 Buy it on Lulu.Com When a baby girl is found abandoned near a secluded monastery, thirteen lives will be forever changed, and an old curse of numbers will be broken. Her name is Catherine, and it is her journey that will teach her life’s most painful lessons, and break…
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The Romantic Trade Paperback: $22.99 E-book: $4.39 Buy it on Lulu.Com Buy it on Amazon Rachel Everdene is a businesswoman, twenty-six years old, and unmarried. She is almost destined for spinsterhood in her home town of Orvieto, Italy. It is, after all, the year 1289 — women are married as children, mothers in their teens,…
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The Secret Dancer Lysandra has lost both her parents and is betrothed to a cruel landowner. She is a mathematician, but does not show off her skills for fear of being hurt by her soon-to-be husband. Lysandra, after all, is a young woman in 12th century Florence, and is soon to be kept away from…
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The call came at 5 in the afternoon, as Agnes was seated at her desk. She had taught dance for the last four hours, and every joint in her body fought between rest and springing up, ready to respond to the slightest beat. Typical of all her dance days, she thought, fingers typing out a…
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Chapter 0. Hundreds of years ago, the woman on the bed would have been bowed to the ground, free of her bonds. She would have her face to the dust, her arms to the skies, her body bent in all places where it should have been soft or strong. And before her would have been…
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Brace yourselves. The K-12 system is coming, and everyone is throwing stones. I grew up in the old system of education, where I entered school at age 6, took the chance to jump a grade at 12, entered high school at 13, left at age 16, and then graduated college at 20. I never felt…
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I have never raised children, so approach the following essay with caution. But let me start with the long and short of it: I absolutely resent anyone who attempts to put children’s toys into exclusive boxes, and who pushes the idea that girls should play only with pink dolls and boys should play only with…
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2012 was the year I started teaching a PE class on belly dance. 2013 was the year I started teaching as an assistant professor. I first taught as an instructor in November 2000, in molecular biology and biotechnology. I stopped in 2003 to finish up my master’s degree. In those ten years in between, I…
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I don’t know if you can relate to this, but have you ever had so many ideas popping up all at the same time – and were so overwhelmed that you couldn’t even bring yourself to organize them? Or, have you ever had so many ideas, that you felt you were running dry? It’s one…
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I first met Wendi in a graduate class on the nature of science at Purdue. We didn’t talk a lot during class – so she didn’t know that one weekend, I completely wrecked my laptop just watching belly dance tutorial videos. Three days after I tossed my laptop in the trash, I was back in…
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