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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I had such a fun time this morning talking with Christopher Gabriel on his radio program at WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota. Of course, I wasn’t in Fargo. I was home, in my pajamas. As all writers should be at all times. We had a great chat, and I found myself thinking, afterwards, about how […]
Here’s a fun audio clip of me reading a paragraph or two from Get Lucky! Click here to listen.
My friend Laura asked me to make a video for the Mom 2.0 Summit art show. And here it is! Many thanks to Shutter Sisters for allowing me to use photos from the site. And many thanks to the amazing photographers: Karen Walrond, Jenny Lawson, Tracey Clark, Sarah Ji, Kristin Zecchinelli, Irene Nam, and Meredith […]
A few weeks ago I fell into crazy love with a chair. Like, I actually gasped when I saw the picture of it on Craigslist. Gasped. And then I drove across Texas with my mom to find it, buy it ($15!), and cart it home. Things seize me like that. In fact, that’s how I […]
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 […]
Here’s a trailer I made with the fantastic Mary Swenson of the now-offline blog Pretty Good. The text here is the final paragraph of Everyone Is Beautiful. [responsive_youtube jPwTrTaZRm0]