Writer, with Kids: Brad Green
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 …
Author: Cari
My knitting mojo is back, sort of. It isn’t ready to commit yet.
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, …
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Writer, with Kids: Yannick Murphy
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 which I do a great public service by revealing the state of my kitchen
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 …
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Writer, with Kids: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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 …
Writer, with Kids: Court Merrigan
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 …
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, …