Sometimes I chose the homemade cookies, sometimes I chose the poem. The years following the birth of each of my daughters have been some of my most productive as a writer. By the next year I had no time at all, even for a shower, and everything to say, because I had become a young …
Our Children, Our Books: Mother’s Day Special Series Part I Read More »
In Alaska, we think we know just about everyone in our particular little social or work circles. But somehow, fellow author Deb Vanasse and I had never met, even though we share many interests and values, and are published by two of the same publishing houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Sasquatch Books). Enter the world …
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be turning this blog’s binoculars not west (as this wonderfully witty New Yorker cover suggests) but the other direction — toward Canada — which, as we’ve been reminded a lot lately, happens to be another country. And very close to us, too. In honor of my upcoming …
CANADA SPECIAL: Book news from our foreign neighbor Read More »
Amazing writers live in Alaska. That is not hyperbole. Alaska is a long way from the nation’s pub hub, but maybe that’s a plus. We know what’s bigger than us, what’s meaner than us, and most of all, what really matters.We’ve got our flaws, like everyone else. We’re embarrassed that our state’s entire congressional delegation …
