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Why I love the Olympics

February 12, 2010

Tags: Winter Olympics, Peggy Fleming, football, war, stories, Jean Claude Killy, Innsbruck, Vancouver


The Olympics are coming! My first remembered Olympics were Innsbruck in 1968 when Peggy Fleming charmed the world with her skating and that hunk Jean Claude Killy walked off with all the skiing medals. While cleaning out the attic last summer, I came upon a folder of clippings, including some from Paris Match. (Subscribing to the magazine was a requirement of (more…)

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Selected Works

Juvenile Fiction
Crossovers
Ben will be dead meat if the guys find out what he's doing at the ice rink in the early mornings.
Beads and Braids
Who will take care of Lindiwe when her sick mother passes?
Between Two Worlds
It’s never fun to be different, and Brazilian–born Cristina Larson feels very different.
The Wooden Ox
Despite the war, Keri’s parents wouldn’t let anything really bad happen to her... would they?
Fiction
Glastonbury Tor
A tale of the Holy Grail and the tumultuous England of King Henry VIII
Picture Book
So That’s What God is Like
God is like many things in a small African boy’s world—the wind, a rock, even his mother.

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