The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.