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’m taking a little break from novel-writing this week to make a video essay for the upcoming Mom 2.0 Summit in Houston. My friend Laura has organized an art show during the conference that will try to honor the amazing things that women are doing online–and the way that having a public place that we […]
About five minutes ago, I sent the first three chapters of my new novel to my editor at Random House. It doesn’t have a title yet, and it won’t come out until Spring 2012. But it’s a crazy thrill to have the beginning in solid shape, and to send it off for feedback. I’ve been […]
I stumbled across this German cover for The Bright Side of Disaster this morning! At first, because of the cake, I thought it must be Everyone Is Beautiful. But there’s nobody pregnant in Everyone Is Beautiful — not really, anyway — so I think it must be Bright Side! The German version is extra-fun because […]
One of the most perfect, delectable, romantic movie scenes ever. Happy holidays.
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’ve been feeling feisty lately. The brouhaha over Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten books of 2009 — which had no women authors on it — has left me thinking a lot about women’s place in our cultural conversation. And, as I’ve been driving my carpools and snaking the grocery store aisles, I’ve been composing an essay […]