Year: 2012
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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Writer, with Kids: Susan Choi
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 …
We went camping this weekend
We went to Cape Lookout, on the coast. I grew up camping in the woods alongside a river. Camping at the beach is completely new to me. You can hear the ocean from your tent as you fall asleep! And …
Writer, with Kids: Emily Gray Tedrowe
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 …
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 …
Writer, with Kids: Elise A. Miller
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 …
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, …
Writer, with Kids: Lisa K. Friedman
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 …
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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