Mieka Smiles, writer for the British paper The Journal, just gave the UK edition of Bright Side a terrific review! She writes: “Another chick lit book? Well, the answer is yes and no. The Bright Side of Disaster certainly nestles very well into that genre. But but rather than being just another one of a plethora […]
Katie in Florida gives Everyone is Beautiful a great review! She writes: “I loved this book. (Maybe even better than her first book, The Bright Side of Disaster, which I reviewed here.) I felt like I was there with Lanie, watching her just move through each day until she found her own passion again. Then it was […]
I was just messing around online, waiting for my kids to fall asleep, and I stumbled on these charming little letterpress books at the crafty website of Jaime Rugh. They are tiny (3 X 4 1/2) with letterpress quotes and sayings inside. I cannot resist letterpress, or tiny little books, and I want them all.
Kristjana, at the the Mommy Blog, just posted the sweetest blog entry about Everyone Is Beautiful. After writing about how she’s not posting as much since her new baby (look at that handome face!) came last summer, she said this: Fortunately, inspiration comes in unlikely packages. Though I have begged off the most recent slew […]
I had many thoughts at the movie theater last night as my sister and I wept our way through the end of Marley & Me–thoughts about devotion and loyalty, about family and marriage, about pets I have loved and lost, about how much I love stories that validate my own life choices. But one of […]
It always makes me kind of sad to see them go. If it were up to me, I’d leave them up all year–along with the blow-up snowman. But I’ve been informed that’s too eccentric. Maybe 2009 will be so awesome I won’t even miss them.
Mike Putnam is a friend of my sweet husband’s from college. When I hear about Mike from back in the day, it’s usually stories about diving off trestle bridges and other crazy things college boys do. So how amazed was I to find out that he is, in addition to being a veterinarian and former […]
This print is from an Etsy shop called Sure As Blue. They have lots of pretty things.
–and found myself awake in the wee hours, long after everybody else was back asleep–cruising around on ETSY looking at beautiful, handmade things and wishing I were an artist with studio full of windows and sunlight. Here are some photos from a series called Through The Viewfinder at a shop called Scarlet Beautiful.
Just got word of a terrific review for Everyone Is Beautiful from Booklist, which calls it a “superbly written novel filled with unique and resonant characters.” Please see the whole delicious concluding sentence below: “Center takes a woman at her most vulnerable time and sets her on a journey to find herself without losing what […]