Apr 25, 2012 | Blog
So, I have spent the morning, well most of it, organizing my notes for the new book, which is called Finding the Good (for now anyway) and will be published by Algonquin as soon as I finish it. My wonderful editor has decided to help me by making a couple of...Apr 23, 2012 | Blog
The title of a library book that I learned was overdue while I was traveling, thanks to the library’s automated notification system, is Made For Goodness. I could not for the life of me recall reading it or checking it out, and thought I had returned all my...Apr 22, 2012 | Blog
I have been traveling in the land of very limited Internet access (it still exists deep in the swamps and plains of central Florida) and got back in time to make a cake for the Hospice bake sale (which Chip promptly bought so the family could eat it) and to babysit...Apr 16, 2012 | Blog
Here are a few things I learned at the 25th annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference: The farther north you go in Florida the more southern you are. The proper way to introduce my mother-in-law, Grandma Joanne, who winters here in Ocala, is “My...Apr 11, 2012 | Blog
I am off to Florida, to visit Grandma Joanne and attend the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society conference in Ocala. I will give a little talk on what I learned about writing and life from the the author of one of my favorite books, Cross Creek (and the The...Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
There are two times a year when the tides are low enough and the Chilkat River is dry enough to walk to Pyramid Island on the tide flats, Spring and Fall, and the Spring walk usually falls around Easter, so while we were all watching the kids find Easter Eggs Sunday,...
