5/10/2023 0 Comments Books by megan e freemanIn my forthcoming middle grade novel, the main character wakes up after a secret sleepover to discover she’s been left behind after the entire town has been abandoned. Like everything in 2020, things have changed. It’s been almost twelve months since I’ve seen her in person, and we have no idea when it will be wise or safe for us to travel again. In normal times, my daughter would soon be flying home to Colorado from Singapore where she now lives and works, and we would be decorating gingerbread houses and stuffing stockings and baking cranberry-orange bread to take to friends. Finding and selecting our ornaments became a way of capturing the essence of what we wanted to remember from each experience. When I met my husband, we carried on the tradition, and his work took us to many wonderful North American cities bustling with art and culture and fabulous cuisine. borders to Europe and Asia and the Middle East, and our collection of ornaments grew along with our collection of memories. Over the years, our quests for adventure and our curiosity about our species led us far beyond our own U.S. Goodreadsīack when I was a single mom, my daughter and I started a travel tradition of choosing a trinket from each voyage to bring home and turn into an ornament to hang on our Christmas tree.
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