Every week I take my son Matthew to speech therapy and when we come home we drive through this neighborhood that runs alongside the freeway and take this little off-ramp out of nowhere up onto I-5. All spring, as I've driven up this ramp, I've watched a plant growing...
My friend, Maya Rodale, drops by to talk about: Life in London There’s nothing like living in a place to really know it intimately, and thus to write about it authentically. Since actually visiting Regency London is out of the question, the next best thing is living...
If you had told me, all those years ago when I started writing, that one day a book of mine would be redone as a comic book in Japan, I would have probably thought you were off your rocker. I kinda thought my agent was off a bit when she sent me the news. A comic...
I have been absent, and my apologies. I am deep into writing right now and settling down to write more just isn't on the agenda right now. But I took the weekend off to go to my aunt's memorial service in Idaho, so I feel ready to type again and thought I would put...
Ever since I went to the PLA (Public Library Association) conference in Portland, I've been back to my old habit of reading like a madwoman. It isn't that I wasn't reading before I went, but after several days spent talking books with librarians—and believe me,...
What a fun day! The wonderful folks at the King County Library system have this annual event and it is so much fun—readers from all over and always some fun surprises. This year was no exception. They had us in the main foyer of the Covington Library which is...
