This is a week for being thankful and I am especially thankful that I can count the talented Laurel Snyder among my friends. We’ve shared meals and woes and joys together and no matter how many months/years between meetings, we pick up right where we left off. Her warmth and grace shows through in her… Read more »
What a treat it is to host Anne Nesbet! Anne and I are cyber friends only at this point but I know we’d be best buds if our paths were to cross. How can you not love someone who writes about people with a passion for maps? Chart our path for today’s conversation, please, Anne!… Read more »
Bonny Becker and I go waaaaay back. We were part of the same critique group when her now wildly successful Bear and Mouse books were merely gleams in Bonny’s imagination. Her work is fresh, witty and full of warmth. It is with great pleasure that I turn this blog over to her today. The call was… Read more »
Boy oh boy, am I happy to host Linda Urban today. We met eons ago at a writing retreat facilitated by then editor Linda Zuckerman, both unpublished but eager to learn. She is a peach of a person and a terrific writer. I am particularly taken with how she can, in her novels, evoke character… Read more »
Natasha Wing is a friend from waaaay back. I can’t recall the first time we met but I know it was when she was a member of my writing partner Mary Nethery’s critique group. Tash: did we meet at the Humboldt County Author Festival? Perhaps. At any rate, we have covered a lot of ground… Read more »
Every week I’m posting a “raw” poem — unedited, fresh off the pen — in hopes that some of you will join me in this creative discipline! Cooking Beans water onion tomatoes Dull things each but simmered in my soup pot, with spices to fit my mood and the rainy day they will bubble into… Read more »
I’m just tickled to be part of Trudi Trueit’s blog tour to celebrate her newest book. You can meet Trudi and learn more about The Sister Solution tonight from 7-8 pm at the University Bookstore in Mill Creek Washington! When I was a girl, I desperately longed to be Jo March from the book,… Read more »
Every Tuesday this school year, I’m posting a raw poem. Unedited. Fresh out of the brain. Hoping to jumpstart my creative juices and yours as well. If you or your students follow my lead and write a “day” poem, please share it! (Today’s poem is inspired by the upcoming two busy months of travel.) The… Read more »
Each Tuesday morning, I’m sharing a poem that’s fresh out of my head onto paper. No revisions. It’s an exercise to help me jumpstart my creative day and I was kinda hoping some of you might try it, too! If you do, please share. It’s a game of hide and seek. And this character is… Read more »
A year (or so– time flies), three amazing women gathered at the Larson beach house near the Canadian border. Augusta and Barbara and I knew each other; Susan and I knew each other. But none of us had been roomies before. It worked out smashingly. Not only did we laugh, eat well, collect beach treasures and… Read more »