My two best friends and me at our high school graduation in 1989. From left to right: Holly, Stephanie, and me.
Even as an adult, I was interested in princess costumes. I made crowns to celebrate Princess Diana’s televised BBC interview in 1995, which my family watched after taking this photo. From left to right: me, my grandmother, my aunt Elena, my niece Kate, my mother, and my aunt Barbara.
A photograph of me with my soon-to-be husband, Erich, on the morning of our wedding, August 16, 1997.
Me with Robert Cormier in 1998. Cormier was my childhood idol, and his novel I Am the Cheese is one of my favorite books of all time.
My first author visit, for Rainy Season, in 1996 at my alma mater, the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Me with my daughter, Priscilla, wearing our glasses at my parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
Me with my husband and our children, Priscilla and Hastings, on the ferry to Fire Island, where we go every summer. This photo was taken in summer 2012, when Hastings was just one month old.
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Poem on page 50 is “Bed in Summer” from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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