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The post I’ve been wanting to write since I started the blog in 2003
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 …
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Fishing without my father
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 …
Waiting, again
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, …
Crazy DIY Hippie Mom Makes (not very good) “Candy”!
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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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 …
Weeping for Amelia Earhart
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. …
Homeschooling the public school kid
Oregon public schools are in serious crisis mode. I know this isn’t a unique situation. Public education has been undermined by political policy across the nation for years now. (Why does a certain segment of those in power want the …
Revisions, revisions, revisions…
Yesterday I shipped off a freelance proofreading job–my last job until I finish the publisher-requested revisions to The Revolution of Every Day and turn the manuscript back in. Billy and I talked it over and agreed that I need to …
Poultry Pomp and Circumstance
Our girls have moved outside to their coop. I carried them out one by one. I imagine it was the first time any of them had been outside in their lives. It was kind of like chicken graduation. First out …