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Dreams. When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother— certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

The author of “Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret” received the DH Lawrence novel after her wedding in “The marriage didn't last but the honeymoon was.

 

Stories. I made up stories while I bounced a ball against the side of our house. I made up stories playing with paper dolls. And I made them up while I practiced the piano, by pretending to give piano lessons.

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The author of “Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret” received the DH Lawrence novel after her wedding in “The marriage didn't last but the honeymoon was.

Judy Blume chronicled the agony and angst of navigating puberty, adolescence, and sex for generations of the curious, confused, and clueless.

I even kept a notebook with the names of my pretend students and how they were doing. I always had an active imagination. But I never wrote down any of my stories. And I never told anyone about them.

 

Grown Up.

When I grew up, my need for story telling didn't go away. So when my own two children started pre-school I began to write and