Sometimes, you really can...

... make lemonade when life hands you lemons, I guess. There Melissa Wiley was, facing agonizingly long nights at the hospital while her cancer-stricken daughter fought for her life, and...

And she agreed to write the Martha books in the Little House series. Hey, it beat brooding. :)

(If you think this meant that she spent less time with her daughter, you haven't been reading her blog. This is definitely a devoted mommy we're talking about. Her family is in the middle of moving from the Blue Ridge Mountains all the way across the country to California, by the way, so don't expect tooooo much from her at the moment. But really, it's one of my favorite blogs. See here and here for a couple of reasons why.)