The reviews are starting to pour in for Violets, and I'm nervously holding my breath. This week Publisher's Weekly used words like "lovely" and "pleasant" to describe my story (I'll take that!), and I'm loving the review from RT Book Reviews, which calls the novel



That's Colby, our new baby (7 weeks old today!) on the day he was born. He's a spunky little fellow (with strawberry blondish hair to match), and a few days ago I was convinced he had colic---you know, the mysterious crying "illness" that some babies