1. This is what it looks like when you tell your kids they can each choose two books at Powell’s: Never fear. Right after I took the picture I made Kiddo clean up that pile of books and compare his…
1. This is what it looks like when you tell your kids they can each choose two books at Powell’s: Never fear. Right after I took the picture I made Kiddo clean up that pile of books and compare his…
I recently read The Bewildered by Peter Rock. I’d read My Abandonment a month or two earlier, and loved it. My Abandonment was published after The Bewildered, and I now somewhat regret reading them in reverse order, because as I…
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday, dear MEEEEEE-HEEEEEEEE! Happy birthday to me! Okay, that’s kind of a lie. I was still 38 in that picture, but BARELY. We celebrated on Saturday night. I’m thirty-nine today. Thirty…
Girlie turned two on March 31st. She’s a great big self-potty-trained girl who’s been speaking in paragraphs since she was eighteen months old. She has sophisticated opinions about food and music and Dora the Explorer. She also nurses almost constantly.…
Rosemary McLaughlin, Playwright: Paterson Falls; A More Opportune Time; The Chair; Standing in the Shadows; Voices Carry, Motherless Child Age of kids: 7 & 8 As I write this, nose pressed up against the deadline, I just finished wrestling the…
1. This ridiculous essay made the rounds on Twitter the other day. I was buried in children but promised to share my thoughts later, then didn’t have the energy to make good on that promise once the kids were asleep.…
Lisa Unger is the award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author of 11 titles, most recently Heartbroken. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages. But more importantly,…
4 a.m. The Girlie woke up at three and I’ve been lying awake since getting her back to sleep, my body all jangly and nervous. I’ve been riding a wave of anxiety for a couple days now. I think it’s…
Hey, so…guys? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am proud/thrilled/honored/excited/overwhelmed-and-wanting-to-cry to announce that my debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, will be published by Tin House Books. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tin House! I mean, seriously… TIN HOUSE. I can’t imagine a better home for this…
Susan Choi, Pulitzer-Prize finalist, author of: The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and a forthcoming novel the title of which is still under debate Age of kids: Dexter will be 8 on July 9, 2012. Elliot will…