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That Christmas, one of our family gifts was a world atlas. I pored over it, memorizing each page. I couldn’t get enough of Japan (where my birth family is from), Peru (my mom lived there in fourth grade), and Great Salt Lake (dominating the western half of the U.S. map). To a fourth grader who had never been to Utah, it was Utah.

I wanted to give voice to children with “behavior issues” who often aren’t asked what they think or feel about the world around them.

A story began to form—an atypical day in the life of a small museum. Missing paintings, busloads of tourists, painfully shy docents, glorious music, art that comes to life …

Creative Aging is an ongoing, life-affirming choice which is beautiful in its own way because as long as I realize I have a choice, I have a voice.

Featuring a sneak peek of Carleton Bluford in Jenifer Nii’s FIRE!