Lauren Alexander

For more than 10 years, I wrote, edited and deleted most of what I had written. But the first two pages are actually the first words I wrote. “Under the Chinaberry tree” is the recurring scene of a picnic with my young mother in our backyard.

The most difficult revision was changing the present tense in some instances to the past tense; my parents passed away before I finished the book. They read Read more of this blog post »