about my publisher and editor is their openness to writing that fall outside the lines of formula. I don’t have to write she did/he did chapters, alternating between two main characters and little else — and having to stretch it out for 70,000 words. I can write from a single character’s perspective. Or I can [...]

when you’re tired of the standard black casement that covers your laptop, your ebook reader, and all of your tech stuff? I discovered the answer when I complained about the problem to my daughter.
Put stickers on it, she told me disbelievingly. (Evidently, it’s the most obvious answer in the world.) So I did. The laptop [...]

We were showered in maple seeds like you wouldn’t believe this May — and some trees still have seeds clinging to them. The seed pods, what we call whirlygigs, showered us all month in quantities we’ve never seen before.
We’ve lived here for twenty-five years and have never seen anything like it. My neighbor used his [...]