A story about how a vibrant, singing and dancing creature who had been held hostage inside a woman’s forehead finally escaped.

A story about a flamingo who attends school with a community of polar bears and has trouble meeting expectations. (Suitable for all ages.)

A Pigeon At Heart is a story about a man who felt it was easier to pretend to be someone he wasn’t. Until someone found out the truth of who he really was…(Suitable for all ages.)

Channel 15 ½ is about a man who fears the whole world is against him and discovers it’s true. Sort of. (Suitable for tweens, teens and adults.)

The Shears of Thornling is a story about a town that discovers their old-fashioned ways of solving behavior problems aren’t always the best. (Suitable for all ages.)

A story about a mom who feels frustrated by her son’s OCD symptoms but then realizes that he’s really only doing the very best he can to cope with stressors out of his control. (For adults only.)

My son has lost a lot of people in his life already, and he often asks me to call my mother on my heart-phone so he can talk with her. I do a pretty good imitation of my mother and try to imagine what she’d say. Sometimes it really does feel like I’m channeling her. This is one of those conversations. (Suitable for all ages.)

A poem for children and families experiencing loss and grief, based on my book Anchors in the Storm. (Suitable for all ages.)

A mean boy tells the story of how he became mean. (Suitable for all ages.)

A story about a mother and her tween son who wanted to connect but had a wall between them. (Suitable for tweens, teens and adults.)

“Katie McKeever was the new girl in third grade. Katie McKeever was perfect. She didn’t walk, she did back handsprings. She received standing ovation after ovation not only from her peers but from her teachers, some of whom skipped their lunch breaks just to watch her on the balance beam. It was at that moment I knew I had to be a gymnast. Unfortunately, a gymnast I was not. I took one fall off the balance beam and had to be rushed to the nurse’s office.” — from 'The Girl Who Wanted To Be Someone Else’ (Suitable for all ages.)

A wicked witch falls from the sky due to a broom malfunction. After landing in a cornfield, she meets a farmer and they wind up helping each other in surprising ways. (Suitable for all ages.)

“I’ve noticed that a lot of times, people get triggered by each other because they’re coming from different perspectives, but don’t realize it. When a person sees circumstances from a top floor perspective, life can be understood metaphorically or conceptually or theoretically. When a person sees circumstances from the ground floor, they’re in survival mode. And in these moments on the ground floor, a person’s life depends on being able to navigate what’s going on down there and being available to respond. And for good reason. They very well may be fighting for their survival—whether the battle is within or from being traumatized or persecuted by another. Or perhaps their jobs on the ground floor are about saving other people’s lives.” —From ‘Top Floor and Ground Floor Perspectives' (Suitable for tweens, teens and adults.)

A little boy has an extra long pinky and his parents worry it'll never fit into the world. An allegory for people who may not feel like they fit into society, but how really, there’s plenty space for everyone to be just as they are. (Suitable for all ages.)

“When unpleasant things happened to me when I was younger, my younger self diligently recorded the details of the event so that if I ever found myself in a situation even remotely similar, she could warn me that something toxic was near.” — from 'Messages From Our Younger Selves'

A story about the burden of carrying around your upsets. (Suitable for all ages.)

“Here’s a secret: I have an elevator in my body. Yup. And it takes me wherever I want to go.” — from 'My Elevator' (Suitable for all ages.)

A piece about intrusive thoughts and some ideas for how to reframe them, diffuse their intensity, understand them in new ways, and even turn them into insights. (Suitable for tweens, teens and adults.)