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We’re giving away a one-of-a-kind, annotated version of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, full of margin scribbles by moi. Notes on inspiration, behind-the-scenes info and just doodles in the margins makes for a unique gift or fun insight into what a writer thinks about her own book. Today is the last day! Enter to win: […]

WHAT THE WHAT

People, there is SNOW ON MY DAFFODILS ON APRIL 15th. Make that ten minutes into the 16th. Do I live in Alaska? The Arctic Circle? NO. Gardening hardiness zone 6B, meaning… Forget what it means. We are going to hell in a hand basket in a hurry is what it means. I am officially losing […]

NaNoWriMo Day 15

Happy Tax Day for those of you in the U.S. Three things are inescapable in the life of a writer: death, taxes, and dissatisfaction with how much one has written. Today, at the halfway mark of National Novel Writing Month, I find myself at over 14,000 words in novel # 3 (I’m not even going […]

Medicine Soup

Anyone who knows me knows I am a dismal cook. Start with a forgetfulness that requires timers to keep from burning things and a low tolerance for failure and drudgery and what you get is someone who is perfectly happy with take-out every night. It has been the source of much motherhood angst. What will […]

Love doesn’t end just because we don’t see each other

Do we need to see to love? There is a line from a movie I love, The End of the Affair (with the eternally yummy Ralph Fiennes), which goes, “Love doesn’t end just because we don’t see each other.” This line always rattles around my brain, because I have the object permanence of a toddler. […]

Castilleja School Library lists THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY in their “For Fans of John Green” Pinterest board

Castilleja School Library in northern California categorizes THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY as a book for fans of John Green. (Author decides she can finally die happy). Their blurb: ”If you love the realistic fiction of John Green, try these other well-written tales of contemporary teen life.” Pretty honored. Click here to see all the […]

Thank you, Falmouth, MA

This weekend I had the privilege of visiting Falmouth, Massachusetts to talk about THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY and meet a whole lot of cool folks. The event was organized by the awesome Eight Cousins Bookstore right in the heart of downtown Falmouth. If you haven’t visited Falmouth, you should definitely put it on your […]

Daffodils and Forsythia

It is officially spring when I can make a bouquet of daffodils and forsythia for my living room. A slice of sunshine right on my antique reclaimed factory cart coffee table. Few things can lift my spirits like these guys. Today my mom came over and we drank máte and sat out back on the […]

Time for a name change

Maybe it was the crazy winter we just had. Or the fact that my crocuses (croci?) were about a month behind schedule due to snow pack. Or the United Nations report that said we are already at the point of no return on climate change. For these reasons and more, I have found myself particularly […]

It’s great until it’s not

Keyless entry locks are great. Until they’re not. Much like so many things in life, I suppose. One of my first acts of husband-free independence was to install a keyless entry lock on my front door. BY MYSELF. WITHOUT ANY HELP. It took hours and I gave up about 4 times before I finally got […]