“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be…
I am less observant than I used to be. Each time I ride the EL train, or sit in a waiting room, or pump gas, or even take a walk, I find myself reaching for my smartphone. When I’m on…
There is no right or wrong way to give birth. Every birth is a miracle worked by our own bodies. Every mother is part of the long and essential chain of creation. I believed this before I gave birth and…
I’ll be presenting at Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 18, 2013. If you are in the DC/Maryland area I’d love to see you there!
Please check out the great conversation author Deanna Fei and I had for Her Kind: A Blog Powered by Vida, Women in Literary Arts. Here’s a quick summary of our talk: Deanna Fei and Frances de Pontes Peebles, who met…
“Are you back to work?” “Are you writing again?” I field these questions quite often. It’s always difficult for me to answer them. Not because of internal or external pressure to get back to work (though I often feel both),…
…To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go,…
If you didn’t already know, I am a coffee lover. My husband and I recently visited Panther Coffee in the Wynwood area of Miami. Panther is a coffee shop and small coffee roaster. Wynwood has become a mecca of art…
My little champion is in a new, more active phase–wanting to sit up, noticing everything in her world, and not letting me get much reading done. But I still hold out hope that I will be able to pick up…
Last week was our first time traveling with baby. James and I flew to São Paulo for 6 days to attend the 11th annual Brazilian Barista Championship. Three of the Baristas used our coffee brand, Yaguara, for the competition. The…
Here is a great interview with Michael Ray, Editor of Zoetrope: All-Story. Here is an excerpt about leaving mystery in stories. “Something I talk to writers about during the editorial process is reserving room in the story for the reader…
I recently read “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.” It’s a book about how and why little girls are systematically bombarded with Disney princesses, the color pink, sexualized dolls like Bratz and…
