The Final Five.

I began this blog back on August 16, 2001. It was over on Livejournal then. I was 31, teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill and had four books published. I joined LJ because my younger cousins were on there and I liked how I could use it to keep up with their lives. This was my first entry:

When I sold my first book I was working at a restaurant called the Flying Burrito. When the novel was published I felt like I’d been split into versions of myself: burritogrl and writergrl. Burritogrl slung salsa and...