True North

The Kirkus Indie Review (my first official literary criticism)

The Kirkus Indie Review reports: English teacher Krill addresses engaging what-if questions about parenthood in her debut novella. Elizabeth and Andrew conceive their children via in vitro fertilization due to a spinal cord injury that Andrew received as a teenager. After their two children, Michelle and Stephen, are born, the couple faces the decision of… Continue reading The Kirkus Indie Review (my first official literary criticism)

Family life

In Honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Today is a day to celebrate our differences and unique abilities, officially known as the International Day for Persons with Disabilities.  I often crack up when our son, Carver, innocently asks, “So what’s Dad’s disability again?” He’s looking for the term “spinal cord injury” or “paraplegic” specifically, when the obvious response is simply that his… Continue reading In Honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities