Robin L. Flanigan is a national award-winning freelance journalist and author of five books. She authored the celebrity-endorsed children’s book M is for Mindful, which cultivates self-awareness, compassion, resilience, respect for diversity, and other practices to help lead an intentional, balanced, considerate life. She experienced some of her most mindful moments at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, where she saw the curvature of the earth at sunrise. M is for Mindful’s artist, Heather Jones, spent 26 weeks—one week for each letter of the alphabet—on a total of 52 canvases for the book.