Greer Sickinger-Maher, Author
When you use the heart as a measuring stick for success…
you find you know more successful people than you thought.
Greer Sickinger-Maher is a long-time elementary school teacher. She earned her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing and Master of Science in reading strategies, and always knew she would be a writer and educator. Greer Sickinger-Maher has been writing stories since she could hold a pen and telling stories since she could talk. She has resided in Texas, California, and Ohio. The bestowed name Greer means “watch woman” and proves true as she draws on personal experiences to inspire her stories.
“This is a life changing story!”
–Santa Clause
How does a bully become Santa’s favorite person? This heartwarming tale teaches a message of kindness, forgiveness, and second chances.
A Social-Emotional tale written by a long-time educator with a Bachelor of Arts of Creative Writing and a Master of Science in Reading Strategies. The academic skills are included at the end of the story. Please find grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and morphology at the end of the story.
“This is a life changing story!”
–Santa Claus
How does an overly bashful student overcome her shyness and become a trusted person to Santa and Mrs. Clause?
This heartwarming tale teaches a message of confidence. A Social-Emotional tale written by a long-time educator with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and a Master of Science in Reading Strategies. The academic skills are included at the end of the story. Please find grammar, vocabulary, comprehension and morphology at the end of the story.
These interconnected vignettes are based on real-life moments—an ensemble drama about ambition, image, and power across different stages of womanhood. In small-town Texas, two girls raised on evangelical promises dream of fame as a way out. In the 1980s, a Southern charm school trains young women to marry rich under the guise of etiquette and perfection. Years later, wealthy mothers gather weekly around a dining room table, trading confessions about cosmetic surgery, addiction, and quiet despair. A teenage babysitter becomes dangerously infatuated with a powerful married man, while in the corporate world, a Rolex-wearing executive threatens livelihoods in the name of “efficiency.” Each story, based on true events, exposes the systems that reward appearance, obedience, and silence—until they don’t.
This compelling collection of short stories explore intimacy, alienation, and the fragile human pursuit of belonging. Characters grapple with what it means to be whole. Four high school girls sneak out of a strict Catholic school on a snowy day, only to face danger—and reveal unsettling differences in how they respond, raising the question of who among them is truly capable of empathy. In the disco-soaked South of 1978, a lonely man searches for the meaning of love. A longstanding hotel harbors a secret as life ebbs and flows through its transient guests, while its employees quietly yearn for connection amid the constant motion of the city. In San Francisco, young urban professionals expose their vulnerabilities within a popular church group. Elsewhere, a newly divorced mother relocates to the east coast, only to encounter chillingly clannish behavior from a family she believed she could trust.