This print is from an Etsy shop called Sure As Blue. They have lots of pretty things.
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–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 […]
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.