“Nobody writes about [junior high],” Barbara Holland’s says in her book, When All The World Was Young. “Everyone’s trying to forget.” (164) I think most people agree that we’d just as soon have a root canal without Novocain then go through junior high again. However, Holland takes up two chapters in her memoir not only helping us remember, but showing us… View Post

I’ve completed Twelfth Night, and it is the Fool (actually, several Fools) that I understand and relate to the most. Like Viola, I dare suggest their vocation is art. I’m over at my publisher’s site waxing poetic on the art of foolishness, and doing my best to mash-up folly and love. Come have a read.

            There is a scene in the book To Kill A Mockingbird where Dill (who is based on Harper Lee’s buddy Truman Capote) convinces Jem and Scout to watch their father Attitcus do his thing in court. Jem, Scout, and Dill sneak up to the balcony of the courthouse so they can watch the most exciting thing that ever happened in Maycomb, but… View Post

hello. Had a talk with a potter the other day. “It never comes out the way I imagined it,” she told me. “It rarely does,” I said, cupping the mug she’d made between my hands. I love mugs without handles. Holding something with both hands close to me makes me want to have those kinds of conversations that meander and… View Post

“When you’re choosing a book to read, you want to think about yourself. Ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ ‘What are my interests?’ These questions will help you pick a book to read.” This is a quotation from something Hadley wrote when she was in 4th grade. I think it illustrates quite well how different my oldest daughter and I are…. View Post