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On Sustaining a Long Career
I spend very little time looking back over my career as a children’s writer, a career that is stretching toward half a century now. I almost never reread the books I’ve published. I don’t even think about them much except as objects on my shelf that require dusting from time to time.
Starting Over
Every morning, right around 6 a.m., I spring awake. I could stay in bed longer if I wanted to, but I'm done with sleep.
The Animals Speak: A Christmas Eve Legend
It’s a story almost as old as our culture. A story so filled with hope, with love, with joy that we set a whole season aside for the telling of it. A story so central to our understanding of ourselves that we seek it out again and again.
Long and Long the Story
“Long and long the story has been told . . .”
It’s the Christmas story, so, of course, it’s been told before. Again and again. For more than two thousand years.
