Throwback Thursday
Thirty four years ago, this charmer entered our lives and now she's the mom to two darling daughters herself! Her first grade passion for chapter books led me to write [...]
Friend Friday
I am always amazed at the generosity of my writing friends, both with their willingness to share thoughts here on my blog, and with making a difference in the larger [...]
Friend Friday
This is the second time Elana K. Arnold has been a Friend Friday guest; the first was for her book The Question of Miracles (HMH for Young Readers) and I dearly [...]
Friend Friday
Please welcome the prolific (nineteen novels!) Karen Rivers to my blog today to celebrate her newest book, The Girl in the Well is Me (Algonquin Books for Young Readers) which [...]
Friend Friday
It is an honor to host Hannah Barnaby today, in celebration of the publication of her second book, Some of the Parts (Knopf). I am grateful that she shared a [...]
Friend Friday
I've mentioned before how much I love the internet: it has brought me friends I've never met in real life/time. That includes the charming and enthusiastic Tracey Baptiste who has [...]
Throwback Thursday
My mother in law, Carolyn "Kelly" Larson, passed away a few weeks ago; her memorial service is this Saturday. So I've been thinking a lot about her. She was a [...]
Happy Birthday, Kelly
My mother in law turns 91 today. Think about this: she was born in 1924 on a poultry farm in northwest Washington State, the oldest of Myron (Mike) and Dorothy [...]
Friend Friday
It's an honor to host Wendy Shang today; I loved her latest book, How Home Looks Now. We got connected through our mutual editor and though we have yet to [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
"The fault-finding will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life." Henry David Thoreau