publications
"Growing up, I loved the electric moments when inspiration struck... which were often in class! Imagine a scrawny, bespectacled kid quietly flipping to the back of her math notebook to scribble out the next chapter of her latest novel and you'll have a pretty good picture of my childhood from ages 8 to 13. Some days, finding inspiration is easy; things flow and I feel like that notebook kid again. Other days, it's a challenge."
Originally published as a Firewood Marketing blog post on April 16, 2020.
""My Johnston is proceeding through the rest of my life with my wonderful hippie degree in a place of honor on my resumé. My Johnston is waiting for the day that hippie degree raises eyebrows, because it means I get to talk about it again."
"It’s startling to see a woman who is always smiling—with the students, with her coworkers, everywhere—break down. 'The reason why I cry is because when I see you, I see me when I was nineteen years old,' she says."