Category: Authors

Matthew just walked in to my room and said, “Hi, Mom. I’m Luke Skywalker, see? Black socks.” He pointed to his feet, which were, in fact, in black socks. And he’s wearing charcoal gray pants and a long-sleeved black T-shirt. But apparently it’s the socks that make the outfit complete. And here I was thinking

Today, I’m feeling very grateful that I have employed a tax accountant for the last thirteen years. It is well worth a couple of hundred dollars for Scott and I not to have to face off over the financial records.  Yeah! Yeah! CPA!

What is the deal with these Facebook lists? Suddenly Facebook lists seem as common as politician’s tax-fraud confessions. I have, over the past two weeks, been “tagged” in about twenty different lists. “One word” and “25 Things” and “Bucket Lists” and on and on. I have never responded to one, but something about me tells

I discovered some good books, purely by accident, at the library(!) this week. My local library is ridiculously sparse, with a heavy lean toward the YA SF/F side. But I found the following books by Hillary McKay: Saffy’s Angel, Indigo’s Star and Permanent Rose. I read the first two during my Monday and Tuesday sick

I have four lovely children of above-average intelligence who cannot seem, between them, to dispose of and replace an empty toilet paper tube.

So it wasn’t awful. But it wasn’t great, either. It was fine. Nice. I sounded a little squeaky and nervous. And the editors were taking the weekend off, apparently. Because they didn’t edit out the “off-camera” sort of talk. Like the part where the interviewer said, “Becca, you’re doing great.” And I said, “If we’re

Almost. In just a couple of hours (after this, and a couple loads of laundry, and a school visit) I will have my first radio interview. And I am suddenly growing nervous. I’m just talking to a guy on the phone. I am telling him how delightful I am, and how charming Bright Blue Miracle

I know it’s been a very long time since college – and even longer since my last really thorough Human Anatomy class – but I must know:  can a person sprain a lung?  I have been living with this dumb pain in the general vicinity of my left lung for several weeks. Here’s what it’s