The other night, I was chatting with my mother-in-law in my kitchen while Edwin spooned pureed vegetables into his mouth (or tried to, anyway). I was telling her how much I’d enjoyed interviewing Marie, Laura and Lauren for their cancer stories. One of the questions I’d asked all three of them was how they’d changed […]
perspective
Just Look Up
My son likes to look up. I don’t mean at me, or other adults, but UP up, to the sky, or the ceiling, or the ceiling fan (which he’s mesmerized by). The other day, I took him out of the car, and he immediately flung his head back and grinned widely at the outstretched branches of […]
The Reading Of Draft 7
Back in June, I finished draft 7 of my historical novel, Waist. I did one final read-through, sent it off to a few people to read, and then let it “rest” for two months. I’d been working on it steadily since the previous August (with a short break to give birth to Edwin) and I felt like […]
All the Money in the World
If you had all the money in the world, not literally, but enough to accomplish whatever you wanted, what would you do? How would you live? How would your life be fundamentally different from the way you live it now? What can you do to make some of those dreams into reality, with the resources […]