: About Me

After several years teaching English in Japan, Muriah has returned to the USA to become the stay-at-home mom of the world's cutest baby boy. In addition to writing, she enjoys cooking, reading, sewing, and learning languages. She's currently working on Spanish.

My passion is ...

Strawberries and chocolate. Life gets no better than that.

I know too much about ...

Crossdressing in Early Modern England.

My parents always told me ...

"I love you."

My childhood ambition ...

I yearned to be the engineer on the Griffith Park train ride.

My favorite memory ...

Four friends, Hawaii, a '68 Mustang convertible, and 'California Dreaming' on the tape deck.

Why I write ...

Because I like it. Why else?

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

My first job ...

Washing the dishes for nickels doesn't count, does it?

My best moment ...

Too many to count, but being in Hamlet rates pretty high.

My inspiration ...

My mom. Cheesy, yes. True, yes. If I can be as cool as her, I'll be pretty pleased with myself.

Arts & Humanities > Children's Literature On rereading the books of your childhood

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The lights in the bedroom are out, and three small girls are curled up in their beds. Perhaps the youngest is already asleep. Light from the hallway illuminates the corner by the door, where my mother sits bent over our current bedtime book. I first encountered many of my favorite stories this way; 'The Secret Garden', 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'Sleeping Ugly', and many others. The warm, comfortable feeling of those evenings still lingers every time I revisit those old friends. Revisiting the stories of our childhood gives us a rare glimpse at the child we were. The five-year-old laboriously pi...

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