grief

Horse of a different color

I can’t watch the footage of the horse race. You know which one I mean. No wonder I prefer to stick with fiction. It’s so much more manageable than reality.

May 26, 2008

Madeleine L'Engle stood the test of TIME.

A moment of silence, please. Madeleine L’Engle has died at the age of 88. A WRINKLE IN TIME was one of those books I read as a child and thought,

September 8, 2007

Memories of a friend – Alice O'Brien Borchardt

Last month, I lost one of my oldest and dearest writing friends. I found comfort in the words Alice herself wrote in Devoted, her first published novel. This is from

August 14, 2007

There's love…and then there's love.

I didn’t know them, but their story has a kind of happy ending: Kathleen Florence Kane Rogers, age 94, and Bruce Harris Rogers, age 93, died peacefully in their

July 5, 2007

Permission not necessary…

This week, I fielded the most unusual permission request of my career. My agent called to say a reader has inquired about permission to use a line from The Winter

April 6, 2007

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