Throwback Thursday
On one of my trips to New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina, I stumbled on an art collective displaying the work [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
Friend Friday
Please welcome Sarah Darer Littman, author of multiple YA novels, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award winner, Confessions of a Closet [...]
Throwback Thursday
The newest book in the WWII Dog series that I'm writing for Scholastic is Liberty (due out October 11) , which [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Believe there is a great power silently working for all things good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Beatrix [...]
Throwback Thursday
I may look sweet and innocent but I have an evil plan: I want to turn kids into ravenous readers of [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Hard times always lead to something great. Betsey Johnson
Friend Friday
Though Erin Hagar and I have never met, I know we would be fast friends over our shared love of [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
One of the oldest and most generous tricks that the universe plays on human beings is to bury strange jewels [...]
Friend Friday
Fingers crossed, I hope I get to meet today's Friend Friday friend, Monika Schroeder, early next year when I wend [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
The sooner you learn that it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be. Maria Semple
Book Birthdays and Giveaways, Oh My!
Two special Butterfly Sister book birthdays today: Barbara O'Connor's WISH and Augusta Scattergood's MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG. My third Butterfly Sister, Susan Hill [...]
Monday Musings
I've been out of touch for a very good reason: Ryan Evelyn Larson was born (a smidge early) on August [...]
Friend Friday
If you ever hesitate about writing an author a fan letter, don't. That's how my friendship with the inimitable Barbara [...]
Throwback Thursday
This will be my last throwback to 1910 (at least for awhile; the sequel is due out in January 2017). [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Chance is the first step you take. Luck is what comes afterward. Amy Tan
Friend Friday
I am so grateful to count Augusta Scattergood as a friend! She's well-read (she reviews for the Christian Science Monitor), smart and [...]
Throwback Thursday
Audacity was 11 in 1910. But had she been 21, she still wouldn't have been able to vote for President Taft, or [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Read widely and without apology. Read what you want to read and not what someone tells you you should read. [...]
Friend Friday
I met today's guest, Michele Bacon, at the spring Inside Story at University Bookstore, Bellevue. (For you local folks, find [...]