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" Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving. "
Ann Hood
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" I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot. "
Ann Hood
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Step
Mother
" Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on. "
Ann Hood
Famous
Travel
Time
" There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens. "
Ann Hood
Parents
Decisions
Child
" My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.' "
Ann Hood
Grace
Home
Child
" When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.' "
Ann Hood
I Love You
Love
Night
" Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. "
Ann Hood
Smooth
Beginning
End
" I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt. "
Ann Hood
Writing
Life
Myself
" As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful. "
Ann Hood
Stronger
Me
Week
" I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words. "
Ann Hood
Good
Words
Strong
" After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. "
Ann Hood
Security
Privilege
Fly
" I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have! "
Ann Hood
Hope
I Am
History
" I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel. "
Ann Hood
Proud
Woman
Cool
" As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. "
Ann Hood
Someone
Forever
Know
" I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. "
Ann Hood
Rain
Daughter
Mother
" When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day. "
Ann Hood
Writing
Eyes
World
" This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. "
Ann Hood
Flying
Door
Care
" If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us. "
Ann Hood
Child
Die
I Am
" Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade. "
Ann Hood
Body
Dead
Shade
" When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. "
Ann Hood
Life
Childhood
Famous
" My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George. "
Ann Hood
Used
Worse
Us
" When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. "
Ann Hood
Activity
Will
Death
" Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work. "
Ann Hood
Hope
Emotional
Everyone
" I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them. "
Ann Hood
Fear
Eat
Watch
" We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. "
Ann Hood
Brother
Mother
Halloween