Clik here to view.
Building a Web of Light
Before I was a mother there was nary a subject I was afraid to tackle in my fiction. Fiction is, after all, a safer realm to explore those dark realities and questions that we often can’t in our daily...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Final Billing
Death is on my mind (read my prior post). It’s unavoidable, and crushing, and I continue to remain completely dumb in the face of such tragedy. And so I’ve been digging through my fiction for something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Milk & Ink Anthology Benefit
Milk and Ink is here now, if you didn’t know already! This anthology of stories, essays and poems by writing mothers celebrates the intensity of being both mother and writer. It also will inspire all...
View ArticleThe Thousand Things
On the phone with a writing client today I say, “It’s a crazy week,” and he laughs knowingly. “It’s always a crazy week,” he says. I can’t read his tone. Is he chastising me? It does seem that I say...
View ArticleStrong Wind
This post keeps unfurling in my mind, I catch a glimpse of it, and then it’s gone, like the tail of a garden snake slithering away in tall grass. I think: I will start by telling the story of my...
View ArticleRaising a Man
I am raising a man. Despite that he is three, a sweet-cheeked little tyke with cowlicks who likes to cuddle his mama and sleeps with a horde of stuffed animals, I try to remember this every day. Though...
View ArticleDay 23: Countdown to Publication Giveaway. Milk & Ink, a Mosaic of Motherhood.
Day 23 winners, today’s book, Milk & Ink: A Mosaic of Motherhood, is a project very close to my heart. I was lucky to be part of this beautiful project, which was my dear friend Alegra Clarke’s...
View ArticleA letter to my son, just because
I can’t stop looking at you these days. At five years old I finally see what people have been telling me since you were born: that it goes so fast, that I must cherish every moment. Instead of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Thousand Things
From the archives. This post originally ran June, 2011–but it feels right for now. On the phone with a writing client today I say, “It’s a crazy week,” and he laughs knowingly. “It’s always a crazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Work-at-home Mom
I’ve been working for myself exclusively from home for over a decade, my home office morphing from a sliver of kitchen niche, to a shoved in desk in the second bedroom, to, at last, my own office in...
View Article
