I’m obsessing over this amazing slideshow of photos of this charming cob house in Texas today! The New York Times just did a profile of it, and it’s so much like a house I stumbled on at the Children’s Garden in Ithaca, New York, when we were just on vacation there. My kids were playing […]
> Just got a message from my publicist at Random House that there’s a section of Kathy Griffin’s Bravo show My Life on the D-List that has my book cover in it! She has a book coming out with Random House, and she filmed a segment of the show at their offices. And right behind […]
This photo says a lot. But I’ll add these words, as well: Wildflower garden. Yacht club. Farmers’ market. Alpaca farm (with chickens!). Also: 75 degree weather. Gorges, and streams, and a lake. Grandparents. And this, too: Lucky, lucky, lucky.
Here’s a Writing Wednesday about life with kids. The question comes up over and over: How do you do both? How do you get it all done as a mother and a writer? And almost every mother with little kids I know struggles with some version of this question. How do you get it all […]
I found a link to this painting at live.life.create.art today and I’m totally breathtaken. The artist is Amanda Blake, and I just want to stare at this painting all day. Really, I want to go inside it. I’d love to know how to paint like that: to know how to make a paintbrush do that…
Here’s a little photo poem. The image here comes from one of my very favorite sites, Square America, an online collection of found photographs and snapshots. And the text comes from something I wrote years and years ago…
It’s been that kind of summer. The kind where it seemed like a good idea to make a list the things I am grateful for. I set out to make a list of 100, and once I got going, it seemed it would be just as easy to list a thousand. But I stuck with […]
A reporter asked me last week to put together some of my favorite quotes from Everyone Is Beautiful for a story she’s doing. And so I did. I’ve been writing new stuff, and blogging, and goofing off with my kids this summer–and it had been a while since I’d spent any time with Everyone Is […]