Domesticated
I got lucky today. Billy took the kids so I could go write at a cafe for several hours–one of my cherished writing Sundays. Before I could get out of the house for the afternoon, I had to get dinner …
Writer, with Kids: Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Girls in Trouble, forthcoming Is It Tomorrow Age of kid: 15 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I …
chickens chickens chickens
We’re all about the chickens. They’re here. We have them. Wee chicks. It’s proving very hard to get decent photos of them, as they live in a brooder cage in the poorly lit basement and their heat lamp has a …
Writer, with Kids: Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Private Life, Horse Heaven, Moo, 10 Days in the Hills, A Thousand Acres, The Man Who Invented the Computer, Good Faith, and others Age of kids: 33, …
The long slow slog toward sun
March in Portland. My love for the rain is all run out, and the rain keeps coming. I’ve had this song stuck in my head for days. It’s no coincidence that The Thermals are a Portland band. The Thermals, “Back …
Writer, with Kids: Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper, author of: Clawback Age of kids: 8, 12 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I didn’t start writing until our daughter was born, and we decided I’d be …
CHICKENS!!!
I’ve wanted chickens since before we moved to Portland (in September 2007), but it never seemed like a real possibility. Our house sits on a smallish lot and about two-thirds of the backyard is given over to vegetables. The only …
Writer, with Kids: Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars series, The Lying Game series, The Visibles, and Everything We Ever Wanted Age of kid: Kristian, 7 months What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before …
[random]
1. It was a weirdly disjointed weekend. I finished These Dreams of You on Saturday during the girlchild’s nap and then spent the rest of the day in a sort of Erickson-induced haze brought on by watching everything fall apart …
In which I make a bonfire of skateboards and wrap my child in bubble wrap
You know how these things go… One minute Kiddo was happily riding his skateboard down a slightly sloped sidewalk around the corner from our house while the little girl collected twigs in her wooden cart. The next he was headed …
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