Anna Rose Johnson

2020 Olympic hopefuls and 2018 World gold medalists Morgan Hurd and Riley McCusker participated in a conference call today to answer questions from the media regarding the 2019 elite season.

After promising to do so in my last blog post, it is finally time to post my brief analysis on the Pat Gardiner series by L.M. Montgomery! I’m excited to share my thoughts on these wonderful books. 🙂

I hope you will join me for a fun reading challenge! For twelve weeks this summer, I’m reading one vintage children’s book a week from this list. For this list, I’ve chosen classic kid lit published in the 1930s-50s that evokes a fun summery feel!

When a friend recommended Amanda Dykes’ new novella to me this spring, I was eager to read it, since it was set in Maine (I have always loved books set in Maine) and took place in the 1920s (one of my *very* favorite eras). And I’m happy to report that I was absolutely enchanted with Up from the Sea...

This interview was conducted in mid-July and written prior to the Pan American Games.
2018 World team gold medalist Kara Eaker is ready for her second year as a senior—which may include a trip to the Pan Am Games and a few upgrades!

This summer, I challenged myself to read twelve vintage kidlit books for twelve weeks. (Okay, perhaps “challenged” is the wrong word. I didn’t think it was challenging at all!)
It was tremendously fun.

Springtime is such a glorious time of year—the first chirps of returning birds, the sprouting of long-dormant flowers, the happiness in the air. For the final installment of my seasonal blog series, I’ve compiled some books that I feel complement the splendor of spring!

The U.S. women’s gymnastics program has never enjoyed such worldwide domination as in August 2016, when they took home four gold medals, three silvers, and a bronze from the Rio Olympics. It’s been a long and steady climb for the U.S. team to ultimate success at the Olympic Games, beginning with our first medalists in 1948—including a very talented young woman named Consetta Caruccio.
Consetta’s parents, Russell and Lena, emigrated from Italy around the turn of the 20th century and raised the...

For the past two weeks, I’ve been deep in the throes of revisions for my novel, and I’m happy to report that I am delighted with the outcome of this draft! In addition to editing, revising, and writing new scenes, I also created a...

I read some lovely books this month! I totaled nine books read in May (seven new books and two rereads). One of my favorites from this month was Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes, which just released at the end of April. I found it incredibly hard to put the book down...

I love listening to classical music while I write. There’s something very soothing yet inspiring about delicate piano notes and enchanting orchestral arrangements...

I discovered the work of Maud Hart Lovelace at a very young age. In fact, I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t count Betsy Ray and Tacy Kelly among my best book friends. I grew up reading and rereading the first four books in this classic series of an imaginative girl growing up in the early 1900s, which were published in the 1940s and ‘50s.

After years of gracing the junior stage and winning countless medals along the way, Ragan Smith’s breakout year was in 2016, when she transitioned to the senior level and was named an alternate the 2016 U.S. Olympic team. Smith’s subsequent success wa...

Fourteen-year-old twins Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova are currently two of the top juniors in the world. Representing GBR at the recent Junior World Championships, the Gadirova sisters hail from Azerbaijan and have lived in England from a very young age.

Delighting the world with her lovely floor choreography and making leaps and bounds for Sweden, 17-year-old Jessica Castles recently won the European Games bronze on floor and is looking ahead to future competitions.