Teresa DesJardien lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, grown children, and growing grandkids. She’s been a financial and a file clerk, a mommy, a page, a bookseller, a very young and hot grandma, and an author.

“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,

‘Fool,’ said my Muse to me, ‘look in thy heart and write.'”

Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 1

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)