Last night I curled up with Miss Marla (longhaired kitty cat) and watched Meryl Streep playing Julia Childs. Her cheekbones gave her away, but I loved how she careened about Paris, eating pears and smelling cilantro.  A few things made it a good movie: someone from the LWord showed up (her older sister), the winning […]

Tibetan Sand Mandala Writing is a little like getting married. The minute Peter and I finished our vows my stepfather told us we should start popping them out.  In those exact words, I believe (he is no longer part of the family). Similarly, at every signing I did for my novels, readers said, So what’s […]

We love Halloween. On Halloween you can get naked, don a tinsel wig, paint yourself silver and dance down Christopher Street explaining to two million other paraders that you are mercury in retrograde.  The parade in our town starts at the Co-op at six and traipses up Main Street in a misaligned mayhem of pirates, […]

Ashley Bryan, children’s author (my personal fav!) Cellist Jody Redhage with poet, Wyn Cooper and Jere Carbone (voted best librarian in the state!) Suzanne and Roberto Olmstead on the Writing Panel Oh my dear book lovers, It was absolutely fabulous.  The whole weekend spun out of control in a beautiful way.  On Friday morning, I […]

Here is how how I feel every year during the literary festival: absolutely drunk with pleasure. (The handsome wild west looking man is my husband, he is crazy about reading. See? Reading really IS sexy!) It’s that time of year again.  Our little town will be painted a very literary red this weekend, and what […]