I’ve told you before that I don’t love plotting ahead before I write a book, but when planning a series, sometimes even I have to take a stab at it. I will scribble notes on paper or the whiteboard in my office, and all too often they
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Our visit there was at the behest of my oldest granddaughter, caught up in the craze for then-new artist Taylor Swi ft (before she abandoned country for pop and my granddaughter’s tastes moved on, too) and she held only a tiny corner exhibit. I didn’t expect all
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This plaque was on my grandmother’s kitchen wall from my first memory. My mother inherited it, and it lived on her kitchen wall until I lost her five years ago. Now it’s on my kitchen wall, a constant reminder of two remarkable women whose lives held suffering
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One of my favorite research gigs was working at Arnosky Flower Farm between Dripping Springs and Blanco, Texas. The lovely Pamela Arnosky (pictured below) was the epitome of graciousness and let this total neophyte work in the greenhouses and fields of gorgeous flowers as part of my
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Sometimes I get stuck in a story and don’t know where to go next. (Usually a sign that I’m trying to force something to happen instead of letting the story flow organically.) It’s a weirdness of my brain and my process that planning out a story never
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