popcorn art
Summer is really not my season. Or I suppose I should say, Texas summer is not my season. Or climate. If we...
secret mission: Mondo Beyondo
I am lucky in a thousand ways this summer. And one of them is that I get to help host a Secret Mission for the Dream...
a day in the life
Kristina at the blog Owning Kristina just sent an email and asked me to describe a day in my writing life for her....
the barbecue capital of Texas
I kind of lean in a vegetarian direction. But when you go to the Bar-B-Q capital of Texas, you just HAVE to be a...
spoiled goats, fresh cheese: Blue Her...
Over winter break, we went out to the country to visit my childhood friend Christian and his wife Lisa at their farm....
the beautiful salad my kids did not e...
Dear Jamie Oliver, I am enjoying your show. And while I may never truly recover from watching you make a chicken...
book trailer for Get Lucky
Get Lucky is a novel about many different things, but one of them is sisters. I have two sisters,...
our kitchen windowsill
I spend a lot of time looking at this windowsill. It’s right above our kitchen sink and right across from...
it’s spring in Texas
And you know what that means. Kite flying. Swing sets. Climbing backwards up the slide. Picking every flower that...
road trip
A few weeks back, I got offered a free night’s stay at a family resort called Great Wolf Lodge. Which is in...
my exhausted heart
We’ve been sick for two solid weeks around here. And I am a champion worrier. I can worry you under the...
mine
The images in the Mom 2.0: Defining a Movement video that I made all came from real photographers–women who are...
tracks
My grandparents’ ranch is on the Brazos river, a perpetually brown, sandy-bottom river outside...
time in the country
We’ve spent time in the country the past two weekends at my grandparents’ ranch. This is my favorite...
hello?
I can never find the phone. Ever. I spend about half my day circling the house, looking for a ringing cordless....
"winter"
Down here in Texas, we have to work hard to create winter. It’s not really a season in Houston, exactly....
my exquisite mother
I have one of those moms who’s a superhero. There is nothing she can’t handle. She should have been...
s i s t e r s
I stumbled on this little moment in our old home movies over the weekend and couldn’t believe how sweet it was....
something we got right
I spoke on a panel last weekend at the Texas Book Festival with the very charming Jancee Dunn, who has a baby....
more décor
Here’s another before and after. A really awesome mod chair from my grandfather’s building materials...
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