Go Sleep in Your Own Bed! Candace Fleming and Lori Nichols. Schwartz & Wade, 2017.

A few years ago, I challenged myself to write a bedtime story.

But where to start?

The answer was obvious: where most good stories start… at home.

In the summer of 1974, my father was diagnosed with cancer and my twelve-year old world flipped. Summer days became sick days.

I found relief at my friend Lynda’s. Her parents owned a small farm in Central Illinois, and it was to their weathered, white farmhouse surr...