praise for Get Lucky
“[A] thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp.” – Library Journal “Center delivers an original, engaging, and...
free LUCK for everybody
So we had the book launch party for Get Lucky on Saturday. I really wasn’t sure how many people would show up,...
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...
radio is an art
I had such a fun time this morning talking with Christopher Gabriel on his radio program at WDAY in Fargo, North...
book trailer for Get Lucky
Get Lucky is a novel about many different things, but one of them is sisters. I have two sisters,...
HEAR a clip from GET LUCKY
My third novel, Get Lucky, comes out next week!! Here’s a fun, sneak-peek audio clip! Click here to...
our kitchen windowsill
I spend a lot of time looking at this windowsill. It’s right above our kitchen sink and right across from...
questions about Get Lucky
The concept of sisterhood is an ongoing theme throughout the book. Are Mackie and Sarah foil characters? Does...
it’s spring in Texas
And you know what that means. Kite flying. Swing sets. Climbing backwards up the slide. Picking every flower that...
reading: Things to Remember not to Fo...
This essay was published in the anthology Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond,...
you're invited!!!
Pretty much every book-related thing I do is fun. But there’s something extra-magical about a book launch...
“charming and funny”
Chapter 1 First: I got fired. For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single...
“Cleverly told and uncommonly a...
Chapter 1 The end began with a plane crash. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in February. A girl I’d never met...
questions for K
Do you write every day? No. I only write every day when I have a story going. After I’ve written something, I...
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...
it turns out, my dad used to be four
I am scanning photos for my dad’s 70th birthday. Which is, actually, impossible–because my dad is 45...
art for mom 2.0
It’s been a long month of sick kids (and parents) at my house. And even though I knew there would be many,...
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...
surreal
Plenty of surreal things have happened in my life. But I’m not sure I’ve ever quite felt anything like...
mine
The images in the Mom 2.0: Defining a Movement video that I made all came from real photographers–women who are...
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