For the record, I’m all for store-bought costumes at Halloween. We’ve had many at our house. But this year, I got inspired to create. My son said he wanted to be Fire Man, and my daughter instantly said, “And I can be Water Girl!” And I just thought those were such rockin’ superheroes for my […]
Yesterday, after 11 days home with a sick 4-year-old, I went to the school I went to for Kindergarten through 12th grade to give a chapel talk. It’s book fair week at my old school, and this year, I am the featured author. They asked me to address the question “Why read books?” And I […]
I’d love to have a body poems booth. Maybe just sit out on the front lawn on nice days with a sign like a lemonade stand that says, Body Poems: $1. And anybody who needed to tell herself something could just stop by and get painted. The first time I ever painted words on someone‘s […]
Last spring, I got invited to go with a group of women artists to the Oregon coast for a retreat called Lovebomb. And of course I said yes. Even though Oregon is a long way from Texas. And even though I’ve done more than enough traveling lately. And even though I only knew four of […]
My big sister is about to have an important birthday–and to honor it, and her, my mom and dad and I went through our old family photos to make a little video retrospective. This photo, in particular, is knocking my socks off. I’d never seen it until my mom gave it to me for the […]
This photo says a lot. But I’ll add these words, as well: Wildflower garden. Yacht club. Farmers’ market. Alpaca farm (with chickens!). Also: 75 degree weather. Gorges, and streams, and a lake. Grandparents. And this, too: Lucky, lucky, lucky.
Summer is officially here, and with it came stacks of art from my children’s schools. And just as I was looking at the piles and wondering where I would store it all, it occurred to me that I didn’t want to store it. I wanted to look at it. So began my project of covering […]
I can’t stop thinking about it. I can’t stop oggling the photos of it on Craigslist. Apparently, the inside is “gutted.” And so I keep thinking I could put in some great floor, and a little dinette table, and a couple of mattresses. And make fantastic curtains out of some great Amy Butler fabric. We […]
I keep thinking about the way my friend Nicole’s landlord has decorated the little garden house out back with a collection of plates. I can’t get over the way it’s just this little unexpected lovely thing in the yard. I just saw the amazing Amy Krouse Rosenthal in Houston this week doing her Beckoning of Lovely […]
–and I’ll actually have to. Because it’s long demolished. But I’d give anything for a cup of coffee and a slice of diner cake at Emil’s Steer Inn Drive Inn. Or the Frost Diner: Or the Mark Twain Cafe & Bar: Or the Glass House: Or many other of the awesome dining establishments listed on […]