Hey, wake up – this is your dream

Lisa Jakub – author. Age 8.

A few weeks ago,I was sitting by a pond with my friend, T. It was a warmfall day and the pond looked as ifit had been ripped out ofIdyllic Ponds Monthly Magazine. There were gently rustling reeds, lazy koi fish kissing the surface of the water and a heron, arrogantly surveying it all fromthe shoreline.

T is a writer and an English professor and we were talking about writerly things, like muses, death and Scotch. We talked about my book being published and he told me...