My neighbor said that a few weeks ago, in response to the infodump I’d just delivered about keeping backyard chickens. I hadn’t thought of myself that way, but when he said it, it felt true. I do love to research. …
Brad Green, author of: mostly unrequited hope Age of kids: 1, 4, 10 What is lost: No time most of all. There’s also no space. Everything is crowded as a room full of elbows, a hallway of mother-in-laws. Reach out …
It might stay. It might take off again. It just wants to be friends, really. And while it’s here, we can bang out a few pairs of socks. You know, that might be cool. But nothing too heavy. No sweaters, …
My knitting mojo is back, sort of. It isn’t ready to commit yet. Read more →
Yannick Murphy, author of: Novels: The Call; Signed, Mata Hari; Here They Come; The Sea of Trees Short story collections: Stories in Another Language, In a Bear’s Eye Children’s books: Ahwoooooooo!, Baby Polar, The Cold Water Witch Age of kids: …
In the realm of trashed kitchens, we hit absolute bottom this weekend. It got so bad I was compelled to post a photo on Twitter. I think I made a lot of people feel a hell of a lot better …
In which I do a great public service by revealing the state of my kitchen Read more →
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, New York Times bestselling author of At Knit’s End, Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, Free-Range Knitter, Things I Learned from Knitting, Casts Off, Knitting Rules, All Wound Up, and her blog: Yarn Harlot. Age of …
Court Merrigan, author of Moondog Over the Mekong, forthcoming from Snubnose Press, and Spingetingler Award-nominated “The Cloud Factory.” Stories upcoming in Weird Tales, Big Pulp, Noir Nation, and Border Noir. Age of kids: Ada, 4 and Waylon, 1 What was …
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 …
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 …
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 …