At first the hail in the kitchen window looks like snow. It's so fine and white. When I was in my twenties and early thirties, one of...

Usually for Valentine's Day, we make each other cards, but this year with our trip to Atlanta and work on Stephen's studio and me w...

I'm sound asleep when Stephen licks my elbow to get me to come awake. Maybe I was snoring — I've been snoring some lately with th...

Whenever I start work on a new book cover, I ask myself what the challenge with this one will be. It's one of the things I like most ab...

We're thirty thousand feet up. I'm kind of terrified of flying but I love all the parts that most people who fear flying fear: take...

Out loud in the car: That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! As I drive, I’m practicing for the Shakespearean house salon we’re ...

Recently I was rummaging around in a box of my old kid things and I came across the first book I ever wrote. Paper stapled into cardboard a...