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 …
Girlie turned two on March 31st. She’s a great big self-potty-trained girl who’s been speaking in paragraphs since she was eighteen months old. She has sophisticated opinions about food and music and Dora the Explorer. She also nurses almost constantly. …
Rosemary McLaughlin, Playwright: Paterson Falls; A More Opportune Time; The Chair; Standing in the Shadows; Voices Carry, Motherless Child Age of kids: 7 & 8 As I write this, nose pressed up against the deadline, I just finished wrestling the …
1. This ridiculous essay made the rounds on Twitter the other day. I was buried in children but promised to share my thoughts later, then didn’t have the energy to make good on that promise once the kids were asleep. …
Lisa Unger is the award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author of 11 titles, most recently Heartbroken. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages. But more importantly, …
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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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 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 …
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 …