by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Books
mindel When my oldest granddaughter was 10 years old, she asked me to write a book for children. She asked that it have a Jewish theme. I had recently fallen in love with dragons, having researched dragon lore for a workshop I did for her younger brother’s class....
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
fountain pen My life-long love affair with fountain pens began in my father’s law office in downtown Brooklyn. When I was a little girl, he would sometimes take me to work with him in the summer. Everyone there was enamored of the new “ball-point” pens. But I would...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 Everywhere and anywhere. A quotation from the Bible, a news report that makes me wonder “What if – 7 centuries back;” or perhaps a line or two of poetry – the beginning of a story – will pop into my head and I’ll think, “Oh! Where did you come from?...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 25, 2014 | Books
Books I wrote Mindel and The Misfit Dragons after my oldest grandchild, ten at the time, asked me to write a book for children. She and her siblings wanted it to have a Jewish theme, and I had fallen in love with dragons after researching them for a workshop for her...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 25, 2014 | Editorial
mandala Many of my Journal stories begin with flower mandalas, most of which come from my poetry journals. Whenever I begin a new journal, I go through a kind of dedication ritual. On the very first page of the new blank journal – each chosen with care to create the...
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