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Braids 15 May 2013 | 09:51 am
When I was at the end of my fourth grade year (same age as Max now) and everything had burst out in green and yellow and smelling of fresh grass and bitter dandelions, I used to run to the bike...
So much 1 May 2013 | 08:44 am
You check your Amazon stats a lot in the beginning. But when you do this, you are almost always disappointed by your lack of sales. So you stop. Then one day you look and see you've sold another copy....
Never ever 25 Mar 2013 | 09:05 am
Saturday morning, in those early hours when your subconscious churns like a cracked out gerbil on a squeaky wheel, I dreamed that I was pregnant and it was the worst thing short of an ALS or cancer di...
Halfway if I'm lucky 16 Mar 2013 | 09:47 am
Today was a sixty-degree, almost sunny day in Seattle. Around 5, just as bars and restaurants prepared for evening crowds, as UW students wandered up and down the Ave, smoking and lugging backpacks an...
Before the fish 23 Feb 2013 | 07:16 am
From a foot away, the waxy roses in their plastic cones of water look fake and are scentless until you stick your nose right up to the dusty stamens. Some of the flowers have been shoved into arrangem...
What I learned during Saturday's writing intensive 29 Jan 2013 | 06:39 am
On Saturday I took part in Write Here Write Now where I sat in a converted church nave with about 200 creative people and wrote. The organizers did their jobs well and based the entire day on a massiv...
Send it my way 24 Jan 2013 | 11:05 am
I have so much to blog about that each thing sits in my brain as if in a pile of messily stacked books. The tower is too high and I'm too intimidated to know where to begin. So, briefly: Max...
What's going on 1 Jan 2013 | 10:01 am
I've been doing something really bad lately. Something born out of desperation. Something that is making my life so much better, but is really wrong. I've been waking Claire up in the morning with a p...
Comfort 17 Dec 2012 | 11:40 am
I took none of the photos above, but they all comfort me in one way or another. I hope you're finding comfort this week, too.
Smitten and smited 9 Dec 2012 | 09:12 am
I woke up crying this morning. More accurately, I woke up from a bad dream and began to weep. This is not usual for me, but the dream was so vivid and so, so sad. It had to do with...
