photo: audrey keller photography Emily Gray Tedrowe, author of Commuters: a novel Age of kids: 9 and 6 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? It’s weird—so much of my writing …
We took the kids fishing for the first time last weekend. Kiddo had spent a week in fishing camp at the beginning of the summer, but this was the first time we all went as a family. I come from …
Elise A. Miller, author of: Star Craving Mad, “Forgive Me,” “Some Great Reward” Age of kids: 8 and 6 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I only began writing seriously …
I typed the title for this post and my brain served up a memory of Billy doing a godawful Jim Morrison impression. “Way-TING.. WAY-HAY-TING…” (As if the actual Jim Morrison weren’t bad enough. Not a Doors fan. Sorry. I was, …
Lisa K. Friedman is an author and essayist. Her work appears in the New York Times and the Huffington Post. Her novels, Cruise to Retribution and Nothing to Lose, are available at Amazon. Lisa lives in Washington DC with her …
Well, I think I’ve done it. I’ve managed to top my own dear mother’s enthusiastic embrace of carob in the seventies. Damn you, carob! You are NOT a chocolate substitute and I’m still scarred. (Is carob even good for you? …
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Peter Rock, author of: The Raccoon and the Letter (forthcoming), My Abandonment, The Unsettling, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves, This Is the Place Age of kids: 3 and 5 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before …
1. I finished reading My Abandonment by Peter Rock this weekend. I loved it–it left me gutted. A child narrator is hard to pull off, and Rock does it so, so well. (PS: He’ll be this week’s guest in the …
Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes, The Failure Six, and Daniel Fights a Hurricane. He and his wife are expecting their first child in the fall. What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will …
Have you heard the latest about Amelia Earhart? That new evidence suggests she managed to land the plane and survived? That she radioed for help, and her messages were written off as hoaxes? If you haven’t heard, go read this. …