My editor once told me that she has to bake immediately upon returning from a trip. It doesn’t matter how much laundry and unpacking I’m supposed to be doing, she told me as she fed me a buttermilk cake at one of our meetings. I need the kitchen to know that I’m back. We had quite a…
and we're off!
(photo by Christina Davis) I like this word, launch, as if one party was something of a trampoline that sent me in one big flying leap into the world that is the craziness of a new book. I’m just trying to keep my dress from flying over my head. Wheeeeeee! I wanted talk a little bit about…
a little bit more
Hello hello from here. We’re at Horseneck State Reservation this week in the hopes of squeezing every bit of of this summer into our days before jumping back into school. So far, so good. I grabbed a few NYT bestsellers from 2010 from the $1 box at the library (The Tiger’s Wife- I’m sorry I every…
slow berkshires
People have been asking me what surprised me most about our walk. My stock answer so far has been honest: So much. But over the days since we reached the Connecticut border, I’ve been slowly finding the words to answer that question a little better. What surprised me?
patience, and august comes
That first day we walked, we dreamed up THE WALK. Of course we had taken a lot of walks together. But that day, we walked from our house to the grocery store. It was further than your average walk, and too cold, but we felt like walking and we left the car at home. We walked…
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