Dee Garretson

Did you read about the real life group of dogs who rescued themselves from kidnappers? I'm querying a lower middle grade with very similar elements! Inside every ‘bad’ dog is a good pupper waiting to be found. #amquerying DM me if interested.

I think being Montessori kid thru 6th grade, then a great urban public school, both of which let kids find their own paths, helped influence her. (My children went to the same schools)

Annuals that are still going strong in the garden this November 5th. Blue Flossflower (ageratum) and red Lantana. I need to find the tag for the lantana to remember the specific variety. I cut them both back around the first of July when we were going to be gone for 3 weeks and unable to water them. I think that helped. #gardening

Golden Raintree flowers in the summer and golden leaves of it in the fall. Koelreuteria paniculata #ohio

Two different emails/texts from editors at “Chronicle.” I responded to each asking if they knew each other. :)

The trickiest part of working full-time with children in school is managing childcare for all the MANY days they have off for things like teacher-in-service days and regular vacation days, and who is going to care for them when they are ill. Children get sick more than you'd expect. and illnesses seem to spring up in the middle of the night so you only have a short time to plan.

One of my husband’s more unusual talents is building stone pathways. This one has had the moss fill in beautifully.

Second scammer this week. Someone pretending to be a film rights agent at @NewLeafLiterary. Email is from a gmail account though, not their official domain email. Writers, watch out!