An article by Roland Rotz, Ph.D., in ADDitude Magazine this month claims you shouldn’t fight the fidget, especially when it comes to children with ADHD: Doing two things at once, it turns out, can actually help focus the ADHD brain on a primary task. Experts believe that engaging in an activity that uses a  Read more »

Erika Meitner is one kick-ass poet. Imagine my excitement at discovering that she has a new book out! It’s called Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls , and here’s what Daisy Fried has to say: These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and being of age,  Read more »

Thanks to Carol O’Hare, the Friends of the Morgan Hill Library, and the Association of American University Women for hosting this Silicon Valley Reads event at Morgan Hill Public Library. Thanks to Marty Cheek for videotaping the event. This video includes a discussion of The Year of Fog, along with a Q&A.

A story has no beginning and no end. Arbitrarily one chooses the moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead

Just up on the Glimmer Train website, my piece about research and the novel. I should mention hear that Linda Swanson-Davies and Susan Burmeister-Brown are my favorite editors of any literary magazine, anywhere. Back in 1999, they called a completely unknown writer and made her day by telling her that they would be publishing the cialis levitra viagra one