My first novel, Dream of the Blue Room (2003, MacAdam/Cage), was re-released by Random House this week in a new paperback edition. I can’t tell you how excited I am to have this book back in stores again. The first time, the distribution was limited, and for the first couple of years it was available…Continue reading Now in Stores: Dream of the Blue Room
Category: Fun-o-rama
The Wild Things Are a Lot Like Us
My husband and I took our son, who will soon turn five, to see WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE last weekend. I figured that my son needed an antidote to his most recent movie experience– Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs–which was so inane and loud and transparently moralistic as to be inappropriate for viewers…Continue reading The Wild Things Are a Lot Like Us
Great gifts for preschoolers
Time to start thinking about what will go under the Christmas tree. I’ve already ordered these: The Little Prince pop-up book, and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. The Little Prince is one of my favorite all-time stories; I already read it to my four-year-old, and he loved it. I think the pop-up edition will be even more magical.…Continue reading Great gifts for preschoolers
Breaking the Camera (again)
Okay, so we destroyed our expensive digital Leica six months after purchase on a trip to the beach. We’ve had bad luck with digital cameras. We left one on an airplane while returning from Cabo years ago, and lost all our vacation pics. One was stolen out of my sister’s car in the Mission, so…Continue reading Breaking the Camera (again)
Stuff chicks want
Just discovered through Google alerts: StuffChicksWant.com. “The place to find stuff that women want. Written by women, for women (and so their men know what their women want).” I’m sold–I DO already want half the stuff I saw there–Zid Zidi Mini Poofs, anyone? Bright Bangle Watches? The Ice Cream Ball? They do books, too! (and…Continue reading Stuff chicks want