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…
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…
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…
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,…
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?…
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…
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.…