Look at this amazing little poem by first grader Miguel! If I could BE a holiday card, this would be it! Plus look at the great graphics! The snowflakes are made out of the WITS tree logo! Here’s how they describe their program: “WITS gives children all over Houston the gift of creativity, the power to […]
Blogger, photographer, digital storyteller, and all-around superhero Karen Walrond came out to my family’s ranch (we are Texans, after all) this weekend and took some photos of the place with a twin-lens reflex camera. I am a big fan of old cameras (the main character in Everyone Is Beautiful uses one), and these photos are […]
I just finished Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, American Wife: “a work of fiction loosely inspired by the life on an American first lady.” And oh, how I loved it. The writing is so fine. The dialogue is so crisp and smart, the inner landscape of the main character is so textured and complicated. The story […]
Looks like I’ll be headed to Dallas on March 5, 2009 for a reading for Everyone Is Beautiful at Legacy Books. From what I can find online, Legacy books looks enormous and swanky and gorgeous. Can’t wait.
I posted this YouTube video of Billy Collins’ poem “Forgetfulness” on Kirtsy when I was a Guest Editor there last year. I still find myself going back to watch it from time to time. I love the grainy animation in the video, the way the images flicker in and out and overlap each other. And, […]
I’ve made a great discovery. A site called Square America that is “a gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography.” Photos from the early 20th century up through the 1970s or so. I keep going back to the site to browse through it. Some of the images are breathtaking. Some of them are funny. All […]
I stumbled on this photograph today at Cowgirl Up!, and I can’t stop going back to look at it.
The dates are confirmed for my book tour for Everyone Is Beautiful! There are still some unconfirmed events, and not all the times are set, so I’ll update this page as I can. Send your friends! Send your family! Or, heck–just buy a plane ticket and meet me there! Tuesday, FEBRUARY 17 Everyone Is Beautiful […]
My eyes are puffy this morning because I cried so hard and so long while watching The Duchess at the movies last night. I mean, I cried and cried. But good crying. Cathartic crying. The kind that comes from experiencing something real. I want to feel something when I see a movie or read a […]
Keris, at the fun and feisty British site Trashionista, has posted an interview with me. Visit the site to learn who my favorite chick-lit heroine is, find out what I’m reading now, hear my theme song, and read shameful secrets about my housewifery habits.