Robin L. Flanigan is the author of the children's book, M is for Mindful, endorsed by national mindfulness experts and celebrities. Robin was a beat reporter for eleven years, winning several national awards, and now works as a freelance writer and editor for several national publications, including AARP and Education Week. Her essays have appeared in The Sun, Motherwell, and other literary magazines and anthologies. The coffee-table book she wrote about the city of Rochester, New York, was published in 2009—a year after she saw the curvature of the earth at sunrise from atop Mount Kilimanjaro.