​"Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pen, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty."
—Lady Blessington, 19th-century.
A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891. p. 639.

Quotations of Quality

I just realized I have the same birthday as The Cat In The Hat.  Dr. Seuss' book was first published on March 12, 1957; I was born on March 12th a few decades later.  Given the recent news about the banning of some of Dr. Seuss' works, I thought it was important to re-post my video about how important it is to own your own copies of physical books.
Remember: Books = Knowledge
Knowledge = Power.
Own the books, and you own the power.

​"My own style is the result of down-right hard work.  This, and the experience of life, have been my chief teachers."
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1893.
Journal of Education, August 17, 1893. p. 114.

Sarah's Books
I would be honored if you would put my name in the suggestion box of your local bookstore, and ask your friends to do the same!  Ask them to sponsor a presentation / signing, or as your library to choose one of my books as a Community Reads project. 
​Thank you for your support!

In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing.  In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into.  Join their adventures in
The Tales of Chetzemoka

A brief history of the humble pencil…

"Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only.  They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine."
—Abraham Coles, 1882.
The Evangel, 1882. p. xvii.

Sarah's Books
I would be honored if you would put my name in the suggestion box of your local bookstore, and ask your friends to do the same!  Ask them to sponsor a presentation / signing, or as your library to choose one of my books as a Community Reads project. 
​Thank you for your support!

"My idea [in writing this book] was that the more of the Actual I could garner up as a text to speak from, the more certain I might feel of the genuineness and value of the Ideal which was sure to spring out of it… Is not the noblest poetry of prose fiction the poetry of every-day truth?"
—Wilkie Collins, Letter of Dedication for Basil, pp. 3-4.