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Lisa Wingate With Emily Iazzetti at KWTX About Dandelion Summer, Writing, and Family Life LisaWingate 200 views Lisa Wingate talks about the writing life and her book Dandelion Summer with Emily Iazzetti on KWTX TV's Moms Everyday show www.lisawingate.com
Book Club World Premier of Dandelion Summer by Lisa Wingate LisaWingate 934 views Welcome to the big premier night of Dandelion Summer! When a movie company releases a movie they're excited about, a special audience gets to watch it early and comment. ...
The Inspirational True Story of a Special Potluck Supper LisaWingate 145 views An inspirational true story from national bestselling author, Lisa Wingate. These events really unfolded exactly this way on a cold February night in the small Hill Co...
"A Father's Letter to His Daughter" from the inspiring novel DANDELION SUMMER by Lisa Wingate LisaWingate 6,556 views A father's letter on what a father can do to make a difference in the life of his daughter--excerpted from the inspiring novel, DANDELION SUMMER by Lisa Wingate. Share thi...
Lisa Wingate's May 2010 Talk LisaWingate 59 views "Let's Pretend And Other Stories" National Bestselling Author Lisa Wingate Talks about where the stories live. From Bestselling Author Lisa Wingate Fiction th...
An Inspirational Teacher LisaWingate 1,186 views One simply remarkable teacher. National Best Selling Author, Lisa Wingate talks about a teacher who made a difference. From Lisa Wingate, fiction that's good for the sou...
Keeping Christ in Christmas LisaWingate 2,121 views Can they really take Christ out of Christmas? No matter what others say to us at the checkout counter, we can keep Christ in Christmas in thousand different ways. Som...
Lisa Wingate's 2010 TV Interview LisaWingate 786 views http://www.lisawingate.com Lisa Wingate's exciting new book, "Beyond Summer" TV interview with Sharon Colson, KAMU-TV. New York Times Bestseller, Sandra Dallas says, "Be...
Inspirations from Grandma Rose -Time LisaWingate 758 views http://www.lisawingate.com Inspirations from Grandma Rose-Time Time is so invisible, you never see it passing.--Grandma Rose "And now, looking through the tunnel o...
Bountifulharvest by Lisa Wingate LisaWingate 226 views http://www.lisawingate.com This year, the Lord has blessed us with the most bountiful harvest I can recall. Looking out upon the wheat fields and hay meadows, I am remi...

About Journey by Train (from A month of Summer by Lisa Wingate

Journey by Train(from A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate)

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When not disguised as an author, I am the mother of two sons. I wanted girls. I got boys. I never dreamed that boys could be so wonderful. But that is another story.

I can't remember a time when I didn't write. I started writing books before I started school, and I never quit writing. I had a very special first-grade teacher in Peasley School in Northboro , Massachusetts , who recognized a little ability and a lot of desire in a shy transfer student. Mrs. Krackhardt wrote on my report card that she expected to see my name in the pages of a magazine one day, and I suddenly felt incredibly special. She started reading my stories to the class, and I was hooked. I quickly discovered the joy of having an audience, and set out on many, many writing projects.

Even though I always dreamed of becoming a writer, I didn't begin pursuing the goal in earnest until after college, marriage, a career as a journalist and technical writer, and then the birth of my oldest son (ordered girl, got boy, fell in love with boy). My grandmother came to stay with me when the baby was small, and together we decided to plant flowerbeds in front of my house. One day, when the baby was fussy, we had to go inside rather than finishing the flowerbed. Grandma bundled the baby and sat down in the chair with him, and soon he was quietly drifting off to sleep. As the afternoon sun streamed in the window, Grandma leaned back, closed her eyes, and began telling me the story of her life, and her flowerbeds, and the lessons she learned there. That story, "Time for Tending Roses," eventually became the inspiration for my first mainstream novel, Tending Roses, which was published by New American Library (Penguin Putnam) in June, 2001.

These days--several years, several books, two family relocations, one boy (ordered girl, got boy, boy is wonderful again), and thousands of words after my grandmother told me the story of her rose garden, Tending Roses is one of several books inspired by life and written during stolen mommy moments between little league, homework, dirty laundry, farm animals, football games, family meals, and book-related talks and events of all kinds with readers, moms, grandmothers, sisters, and friends all around the globe. Who knew all of that would come from one quiet afternoon with Grandma and an unfinished flowerbed?

Of all of the books, Tending Roses remains my sentimental favorite, because of the real-life connection with my grandmother, but I have loved and treasured the moments spent in the world of each book. Each story begins with an inspiration from life, and after that, the writing is a journey of discovery. I never know where the story will go, or how it will end, or who the characters will become, until the last words are written, though as a writer and as a person, my heart always goes to happy endings. So many of today's sound bites are sensational, and awful, and when you take in all of those things, it is easy to lose faith in the world and in the goodness of people. I want to create books that are entertaining, but also good for the soul-- that don't leave readers feeling sad or disappointed, or wishing they hadn't read the book at all. I think we are all called to add something good to the world, to inspire and uplift, to add our colors to the canvas. I have met so many people who have wonderful ways of doing that. I admire them. I want to be like them. I love to write about them.

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