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AF: How long have you been a writer? I’ve been writing since I was in early middle school. It started as me writing little poems in notebooks and later expanded to me writing prose. For most of that time, we didn’t have a computer at home, and even when we...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? All my life in some ways, but only seriously (beginning as an arts journalist and playwright) since 1999. AF: What inspired you to write this book? Many different things converged: a game I made for my young niece, in which she...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? I’ve been a writer my whole life. I knew I always wanted to write. Always. From the very beginning when I would sit in my high chair at the dining room table where everyone was much older than me. I watched them. Studied them,...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? Even though I’ve always loved reading and telling stories, I didn’t seriously start writing children’s books until about 10 years ago. I always thought that writers were born with a “gift” to write,...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? I’ve been a writer at heart since I was old enough to climb a tree with a spiral notebook and pencil in hand. I grew up on a ranch with lots of animals and related chores, very few television channels, no neighbors, and an...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? It is possible that there was a pencil clenched in my fist in utero. I have been told that it was quite an uncomfortable pregnancy for my mother, and my earliest scribblings likely lacked both grace and gentle form. Seriously, I...
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AF: How long have you been a writer? Ten years ago at a symphony with my husband, the idea to write a book about the power of a smile to enable us to live our best life hit me over the head like a 2 x 4, and from that moment on I have been an insatiable writer,...
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Tanger Outlets San Marcos recently announced grants to three area schools through the TangerKIDS Grant program. Recipients included Bowie Elementary in San Marcos, Timberwilde Elementary in San Antonio and San Marcos Consolidated ISD. “A substantial part of our...
Feature Articles
Your Family’s Local Summer Reading List Austin is lucky to claim a wealth of local authors who inform, inspire, transport and transcend. So when picking your summer reads, why not persue the pages from a local pen? Here are a few to get you started. Kat...
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Even though I read several books (“read” may be aggressive—I at least skimmed the inside cover of each) as well as dozens of blog posts on potty training, nothing could have prepared me for the real thing. There were several times I felt like calling it quits...
