Heidi’s Blog

Peace on Earth and Mercy Mild

There’s no place that reveals my sometimes-obsessive need for control more than the passenger’s seat of my car. I don’t remember having anxiety in the passenger seat until after I became a mother. Something clicked in my brain then, and to my husband’s dismay, that...

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A Thrill of Hope

Hope is a word we tend to use a lot. I use it a lot. I hope the Ice Cream Barn is offering their chocolate peppermint ice cream today. I hope my editor likes the manuscript I turned in. I hope that medical test comes back negative. I sign my books “With Hope.” My...

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An Interview with a Penikese Kid

“I think most kids who came out here probably felt a connection when they heard the story of the leper colony because they were sent here against their will . . . you still felt like an outcast. So I always felt a deep connection with the history of them, especially...

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Do you remember?

I was hiking in the woods with my two boys, my mother, and my sister when my brother-in-law called and told us there'd been a bombing in Boston, at the marathon. I still remember the terror as I tried to wrap my mind around it. I knew someone running in the marathon....

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