Just got a Flip video camera, and this video documents the first time I ever used it! This is me, after a reading, pretty late at night, at my desk. I’d intended to read an entire chapter–the chapter I’d read just a few hours earlier at a lovely and breezy Inprint Houston event, but the […]
It’s a beautiful day. Here’s one of my favorite poems. (We read it at my wedding!) *Beautiful peach photo by Tracey Clark. From Blossoms From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, […]
I keep thinking about the way my friend Nicole’s landlord has decorated the little garden house out back with a collection of plates. I can’t get over the way it’s just this little unexpected lovely thing in the yard. I just saw the amazing Amy Krouse Rosenthal in Houston this week doing her Beckoning of Lovely […]
After 3 weeks of traveling, I’m home again for good. I’d had big plans to document the book tour here, but instead I came face to face with the tension between documenting the things you’re doing and actually doing those things. That’s a frustrating thing: that there are only so many hours in the day. […]
Everyone Is Beautiful was a “great book for the tub” in the March 2009 issue of Redbook.
Found them at Three Sisters Ink via the sweet site SevenOf.com. I am one of three sisters, and my mom has a chicken collection. So I have to own this print!
The beauty is piling up at Shutter Sisters’ One Word Project this month! In a photo challenge sponsored by Ballantine (and they’re giving away 4 Diana cameras!), photographers are posting their visual interpretations of the word “beautiful.” It’s so breathtaking to look through the photos. I highlighted a few photos last week, too–and here’s another […]
USA Today just featured Everyone Is Beautiful in their “Women’s Fiction Round-up”–and gave it a glowing review! They say, “This is a breezy read that glows, in part, because its characters bask in the sunny side of life.”
My friend Nicole, a phenomenal chef, invented these sweet cupcakes to bring to the reading at Watermark Books in Anacortes, WA. Here they are, coming into existence. First, the cupcakes–hot outta the oven: The homemade caramel filling: The homemade caramel filling IN the cupcakes! The homemade whipped-cream icing: And the sprinkles:
I am visiting one of my best friends from college here on my book tour. She’s lives up north of Seattle in a charming and picturesque town called Anacortes. She runs her own restaurant, and has been running it for several years, but I’ve been home with my little kids–and I’ve never seen it until […]
My friend Mary Swenson and I made a trailer for Everyone Is Beautiful. I contributed the idea and the text (it’s from the book), and she contributed the photography and the design and the fabulousness. And here it is!!! Hope you love it as much as I do. [BlueTube]jPwTrTaZRm0[/BlueTube] Thanks also to Laurie Smithwick for […]
Over at the amazing photography site Shutter Sisters, there’s a project going on. It’s called the One Word Project. Every month, they choose a new word and then folks post photos of their interpretations of that word. This month, to celebrate the release of Everyone Is Beautiful, the One Word is “Beautiful.” And Ballantine Books […]
Here is a gorgeous photo from the fabulous Tracey Clark at Mother May I.
Emails and responses are starting to roll in for Everyone Is Beautiful, and I thought it would be fun to share some of the things people are saying: I just read Everyone Is Beautiful and it was such pure joy! I was so tired and ready for a nap but picked it up to read […]
Just blowing a kiss to Mary Swenson, who posted this lovely image of Everyone Is Beautiful’s cover on her gorgeous blog, It’s Pretty Good. Don’t you wish keyboards had a heart key so we could all use hearts as verbs??