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In her 49th post, Helena returns with another chapter from her middle-grade novel, about piano lessons and the value of practice and art.

In her 48th post, Helena shares a chapter from her favorite of her original works, Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn.

In her 47th post, Helena offers a short piece of writing by her adult son, an example of stream of consciousness-style writing, plus a call to try it yourself.

Helena offers some poetic “impressions” from her daily journaling practice, plus a requested and imagined end to the two-part monkey story from March and May.

Helena shares an original story about a boy who comes into his own through his relationship with a prize-winning but stubborn cow.

In her 44th post, Helena Clare Pittman tells the second part of her March story of adolescent rebellion.

When I was fourteen and life had taken its hormonal turn, pushing me out of the childhood home that I thought was permanent, I bought a monkey...

[I began] opening the images I carried with me to find the experience, the meaning, the feeling, the story...As I wrote them, they became...the story of my first-generation American family...

“Ticked Off!” captured my imagination. It felt like a title for a children’s book. I thought of a clock. Then the story opened to me...

In her 40th post, Helena shares another original children’s story—a counting story—and creative process behind both writing and illustrating it.