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Then I was back in it
I thought it would suck going straight back to work the morning after flying back from London, but after a few days of wandering around a strange city with an open agenda, it’s remarkably comforting to...
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We won’t go until we get some, we won’t go until we get some
It is coming slowly, the Christmas feeling. I think having this overseas trip wedged in the first weekend of the month didn’t help. We had to put up our tree right after Thanksgiving, when I am not...
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Last night Chris and I watched a Netflixed DVD of the 1980 film Ordinary People. I’ve been on something of a mission to find and watch movies that I watched repeatedly on cable during my childhood,...
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The Jamesons
I first discovered the photo a year ago, in a trunk in New Mexico when I was visiting my dad for Christmas. It was with hundreds of other photographs—snapshots and portraits and cabinet cards and even...
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Bird by bird-ing it
It happened: I got the editorial letter for my children’s novel on Monday. It’s fifteen pages long (“we always give very extensive notes,” the editor warned me) and comes with a deadline in...
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Retreat to win
I used to try a lot harder to win at Christmas. I’d be strategic about the cookies I’d bake and the music I’d play and the time I’d spend under Christmas lights, trying to increase my levels of...
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Road post!
Posting from the road! The car! Headed to Michigan to visit Chris’s folks for the holidays. This will be brief and filled with blurry photos. I do it for you, Holidailies. We take the Skyway, which we...
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In glowing words I’m trying hard
This time last year I was in New Mexico and we had just opened a cache of family stuff that had been packed away for years. Not just the photos I keep mentioning, but papers and letters and scrapbooks...
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Coming very soon…
A new look for this site, and news about Wendy’s middle grade novel, Wanderville, which will be out January 23rd, 2014!
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An update, in case any of you still have a feed to this blog (do folks use feed readers anymore?) or follow it on Goodreads: Though I haven’t updated the blog here, I’ve been posting fairly regularly...
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