“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -- Howard Thurman When I was a kid, I used to love to sit at ...

Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was one of those novels that made me want not just to be a reader but also a storyteller. Twenty-five years after her debut, Jacquelyn is ...