Feature in the Houston Chronicle

  This feature about our “bathroom o’ wisdom” by the fantastic Maggie Galehouse appeared in the Houston Chronicle in February 2014. Yep.  That’s our downstairs half-bath, all covered in wise quotes about life.  I started taping them up a few years ago with the idea that it would be good for my kids to kind […]

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essay for Houstonia Magazine

    This essay about growing up and letting go–and Camp Waldemar–appeared in Houstonia Magazine in February 2014. HOLDING ON IN A WAY, MY MOTHER NEVER TRULY LEFT her childhood home, even though she moved out long ago. It’s a classic River Oaks Georgian with two enormous magnolias with mushroom-colored trunks in the front yard. Her dad built […]

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other covers

• • • United Kingdom • • •  • • • Germany • • • • • • Portugal • • • • • • The Netherlands • • •  • • • Hungary • • • • • • The Czech Republic • • •  • • • Audiobooks • • • • • • Large Print • • • *More images as they become available!!

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the fabulous Brené Brown

So grateful to my friend Brené Brown for recommending The Lost Husband so heartily — and for putting my books on her favorites list! • • • “Last week my good friend Katherine Center celebrated the launch of her new book,The Lost Husband, with a party here in Houston.  I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of The Lost […]

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VIDEO: What You Know Now

At the launch for The Lost Husband, I read a short scene from the book, and then I also read an essay that I wrote a while back for an amazing project called The Prime Book. It’s a book of gorgeous, sumptuous pictures by the photographer Peter Freed that aims to redefine what it means […]

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The Lost Husband–LAUNCH!

It’s been a heck of a week! We had a FANTASTIC crowd at the launch for The Lost Husband this week!  It felt like there were a thousand people there, which can’t be right.  But it was standing-room-only, and Brazos Bookstore sold out of books. I am so grateful to all the people who came […]

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video: what are you grateful for?

I am lucky in a thousand ways this summer.  And one of them is that I get to help host a Secret Mission for the Dream Lab at Mondo Beyondo. Here’s what it is:  My friends at Mondo Beyondo want to inspire folks to create guerilla goodness in the world–acts of kindness or love that help […]

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interview: a day in the life

(This is a post from 2010.  Glad to say I’m getting MUCH more rest nowadays!) •  •  • Kristina at the blog Owning Kristina just sent an email and asked me to describe a day in my writing life for her.  She wants to know what it’s like to spend your days doing what you love […]

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the Lockhart Library

Last week, I drove out to Lockhart, Texas, with my mom for a book event.  The library in my new book, Get Lucky, is based on the historic library in Lockhart–the oldest library in Texas. It was so amazing to get to stand in the library that had sparked so many ideas in my head […]

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video: make your own luck

I’ve just made a new trailer for Get Lucky that tries to feel a little bit like the book. I was super-lucky to get to use photos taken by my beautiful pal Andrea Jenkins of Hula Seventy, who is an amazing photographer, artist, blogger, and mama.  Beyond amazing, actually. I’ve been trying to make this video […]

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