The images in the Mom 2.0: Defining a Movement video that I made all came from real photographers–women who are working on their craft every day. I am not a real photographer. But I did sneak in one of my own photos when I made the video. Just one. This one’s mine. It’s a heart […]
My grandparents’ ranch is on the Brazos river, a perpetually brown, sandy-bottom river outside Houston. I’ve paced around its shores on trips to the ranch my whole life, and now we take our kids there and they do the same thing. Its amazing to watch history repeat itself like that, and I’m happy to report […]
We’ve spent time in the country the past two weekends at my grandparents’ ranch. This is my favorite place to be.
I can never find the phone. Ever. I spend about half my day circling the house, looking for a ringing cordless. But it’s not there. It’s buried under something. But I don’t know what. I don’t know why I can’t remember to put it back on the base when I’m done talking. But I can’t. […]
Down here in Texas, we have to work hard to create winter. It’s not really a season in Houston, exactly. It’s more like a series of fronts that blow the heat away for a few months, a couple of days at a time. So holiday decorations have a kind of make-believe quality. Like we’re pretending […]
I have one of those moms who’s a superhero. There is nothing she can’t handle. She should have been the President, and I’m not kidding. But then I never would have gotten to see her. And I love to see her. So it was a good deal for me that she wasn’t the President. But […]
I stumbled on this little moment in our old home movies over the weekend and couldn’t believe how sweet it was. And so I made this video. (I’m the little blond sister, by the way…) [BlueTube]04u0RTAxLn8[/BlueTube]
I spoke on a panel last weekend at the Texas Book Festival with the very charming Jancee Dunn, who has a baby. Fellow panelist and Houston author Gwendolyn Zepeda and I wound up giving her parenting advice. And while we were talking, I heard myself say something very true. It can be so easy to […]
Here’s another before and after. A really awesome mod chair from my grandfather’s building materials company that I snagged from my mom’s garage a few weeks ago: And now, in my living room, freshly back from the upholsterer’s: I’ve kinda fallen in love with this chair, but it didn’t happen until after it got its […]
For the record, I’m all for store-bought costumes at Halloween. We’ve had many at our house. But this year, I got inspired to create. My son said he wanted to be Fire Man, and my daughter instantly said, “And I can be Water Girl!” And I just thought those were such rockin’ superheroes for my […]