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The STAY Inside Story
For 22 years, the Inside Story has chugged along, staging twice-yearly gatherings at libraries and bookstores to celebrate new books created by Seattle-area children’s authors and illustrators. The goal is to give each book creator two minutes to share something … Continue reading
By George, she’s got it (and you can, too)
The longer I’ve been a writer, the more I’ve come to trust my intuition. I wish I’d had more faith in it sooner or, rather, understood earlier what a powerful compass it is. It’s funny because it’s something I’ve always … Continue reading
Hither and Thither, Bits and Pieces
This post constitutes what is called a “mixed bag.” It’s summer, and as far as I’m concerned, that means my mind can wander. And my mind usually wanders hither in bits, thither in pieces. Here are seven of those pieces. … Continue reading
Time to Play
There comes a time in most creative lives when the joy gets lost. The doing of your art—your poetry, your books, your drawings, your cooking, your sewing, your teaching—becomes a chore. I’ve gone through this cycle a number of times—the … Continue reading
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Rose Wilder Lane: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter and secret collaborator
I was eight when we moved to Sonora, CA. It was my fourth school in five years and I wasn’t adjusting well. Luckily, our new town had a library tucked into the Veteran’s Hall, right on Main Street, between our … Continue reading
THREE SHORT TAKES
COINCIDENCE There are things that happen in real life that you would never believe if you read them in a novel – too coincidental, you’d think. Not believable. But this really happened. We were watching the vice-presidential debates when a … Continue reading
Reading the Times
WE’RE SITTING TIGHT here in Seattle, at the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus, while news of Boeing’s 737 Max crisis, the Democratic primaries, and the stock market’s volubility swirl around us. How to stay calm in these stressful times? Curl … Continue reading
Where Lily Isn’t
For 17 years my husband Joe and I had a little dog named Lily. When she died her absence pressed against me. I missed her in general, and I missed her specifically and strongly in all the places where she … Continue reading
First Graders, Cucumber Sandwiches and Foxes
Last month on a beach in Hawaii, I met a fellow grandma named Susie. She has a granddaughter, Hannah, back in Wisconsin. Turns out Hannah’s class was just then reading my book, Zelda and Ivy The Runaways. What a coincidence! … Continue reading
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Books Around The Table 