Here’s the second video trailer for the essay “Things to Remember Not to Forget” in Andrea Richesin’s anthology, “Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond.” All the photos, as before, come from the amazing site Square America. [BlueTube]26W3SuWHU-g[/BlueTube]
Here is the first in a series of 3 videos I am making that feature excerpts from my essay “Things to Remember Not to Forget.” The essay was just published in an anthology called “Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond,” edited by Andrea N. Richesin. The photos are from an […]
It’s a beautiful day. Here’s one of my favorite poems. (We read it at my wedding!) *Beautiful peach photo by Tracey Clark. From Blossoms From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, […]
I keep thinking about the way my friend Nicole’s landlord has decorated the little garden house out back with a collection of plates. I can’t get over the way it’s just this little unexpected lovely thing in the yard. I just saw the amazing Amy Krouse Rosenthal in Houston this week doing her Beckoning of Lovely […]
After 3 weeks of traveling, I’m home again for good. I’d had big plans to document the book tour here, but instead I came face to face with the tension between documenting the things you’re doing and actually doing those things. That’s a frustrating thing: that there are only so many hours in the day. […]
Found them at Three Sisters Ink via the sweet site SevenOf.com. I am one of three sisters, and my mom has a chicken collection. So I have to own this print!
The beauty is piling up at Shutter Sisters’ One Word Project this month! In a photo challenge sponsored by Ballantine (and they’re giving away 4 Diana cameras!), photographers are posting their visual interpretations of the word “beautiful.” It’s so breathtaking to look through the photos. I highlighted a few photos last week, too–and here’s another […]
I am visiting one of my best friends from college here on my book tour. She’s lives up north of Seattle in a charming and picturesque town called Anacortes. She runs her own restaurant, and has been running it for several years, but I’ve been home with my little kids–and I’ve never seen it until […]
Over at the amazing photography site Shutter Sisters, there’s a project going on. It’s called the One Word Project. Every month, they choose a new word and then folks post photos of their interpretations of that word. This month, to celebrate the release of Everyone Is Beautiful, the One Word is “Beautiful.” And Ballantine Books […]
Here is a gorgeous photo from the fabulous Tracey Clark at Mother May I.