More than a Mother
Exploring the landscape of modern motherhood and more
Write with Me at the End of Summer
I'm excited to be running year four of LATE SUMMER SHORTS, a writing-prompts intensive at Left Margin Lit with my dear friend and teaching buddy Rachel Sarah. Here's what I love about this intensive online course: The prompts work for all genres The prompts are like...
NEW POEMS
Readers! I made a bit of a tactical error way back when, by creating a mailing list AND a blog with its own separate list, and I have a million social media accounts I neglect. All of which is to say, forgive me if you're getting this news twice or thrice, but eager I...
SPRING EQUINOX & SUSIE AT BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL
Friends, here's what the Spring Equinox looks like here in Northern California. I got so excited about the torrential rains predicted last Saturday, a gig-postponing, movie-afternoon kind of rain. Instead, it sprinkled for an hour. Climate change and drought, folks,...
THE SLIDESHOW
It would take a thousand photos to really explain a year of Covid. We had one slideshow. New Year's Eve, 2021. We enjoyed a Covid-style masked backyard cocktail with friends and came home for a decadent fondue dinner just the four of us. I'd thrown the photos together...
High, Low, Buffalo: Surviving The Spring of the Virus
We made it through two weeks of homeschooling, two weeks of working from home with two kids around, two weeks of The Spring of the Virus. Even if the Shelter in Place order lasts into summer, into fall?God forbid?it will be springtime in my mind when my future wise...
The Best Summer Yet
[ASIDE: Reader, I'm not happy with the aesthetics of my blog posts. I tried to make the font larger for better readability, but then things looked even more catty-wonkus. If there are any Wordpress mavens out there, please drop me a line, yo?] At the end of last...
Finale, Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck: Summer Pasta
Didja notice I skipped a week of Vegetarian Dinners That Don't Suck? Forgive me. It's summer, and we wrapped up the school year with a two-night camping trip in the Sierra foothills, came home for two nights and went camping again. So last week was a wash. Camping...
Part Four, Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck: Gado Gado
We went to Ben's sister J's last weekend in the 90 degree heat to check in on her beautiful and quirky property in Sonoma. We met her in Santa Rosa at a farm where a lovely woman named Vivian raises chickens. Little Sammy immediately availed himself of the flock,...
Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck Part Three: Tofu Two Ways
Meal planning, let alone cooking delicious vegetarian dinners, has been the last thing on my mind. In these parts, we've been eating a lot of toast. It's been a minor doozy of a few weeks. I finally got rid of my two-week cold only to throw my back out, only to...
Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck Part Two: Indian Feast
I love me some Indian food. While the Indian food we white people make at home isn't quite as spectacular as what we get from Vik's or Udupi Palace in Berkeley, nonetheless we make a respectable Indian meal in these parts. The foundation? Dal. It's delicious, it's...
About Me
I'm working from the premise that motherhood is not just all diapers, tantrums, and setting limits. It's interesting. Okay, sometimes. My new poetry collection is out from Blue Light Press!
