Mar 25, 2019 | Personal Blog
Do you know this chair? You may recognize it as Van Gogh’s, a chair with his pipe and tobacco on the seat, his distinctive signature on the box behind it. But when I look at it, I see a love story- for him and for me! Well that’s dramatic, Becky. It is!...
Mar 20, 2019 | Personal Blog
I found out the answer to that question at 1:48 am on Sunday morning. It’s kind of hilarious now, but it absolutely wasn’t then. But more about that later… Earlier this year something extra weird happened in my neighborhood that has become the theme...
Aug 17, 2018 | Personal Blog
So yeah, I did a hard thing today. You might do it all the time and think it’s no big deal, but it sure was big for me. It made me sweat and change my clothes twice and growl at my husband (not an eyes-batting-come- hither growl, mind you, but a...
Dec 6, 2017 | Personal Blog
See the pile of notebooks amongst some of my French stuff I used to keep focus while I was writing The Holy Éclair? Those are the 5 different versions that the book took over the last ten years, as I worked and reworked it from time to time–not five different...