I'll be the boy with the pink carnation
We’ve had a cold spring here in Portland, and a wet one. The wet is to …
Author: Cari
Breaking Up with Jack Kerouac
My agent is shopping my new novel, The Narrow Place, around to editors right now. I’m …
Fiction is fiction.
Consider this your permission to make shit up. Recently, a student asked me, “If you could …
That cool, modern, laid-off-via-Twitter feeling
Like many novelists, teaching is my primary income source. Luckily, it’s work that I love to …
Sunrise, Sunset… (Dispatch from Utopia)
I’ve been quiet the past few weeks because our family was up to our necks in …
Refilling the well with a nice, lighthearted murder
Happy New Year! I hope the final stretch of 2022 was good to you. I’m emerging …
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The Books I Loved Most in 2022
We’re well into the cold and gray and dark here in Portland, and with 2022 coming …
A Secret (okay, not so secret) Well in Toledo
In my last letter to you, I talked about catching covid on the way to Spain …
Okay, so a pandemic and an anxiety disorder walk into a bar…
I’m among friends here, right? So can I just say that… Holy hell, the threat of …
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Same Cari, New Box
So…I did it. I tucked you all into a box and carried it over from Tiny …