praise for Get Lucky

“[A] thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp.” – Library Journal “Center delivers an original, engaging,...

secret mission: Mondo Bey...

I am lucky in a thousand ways this summer.  And one of them is that I get to help host a Secret Mission for...

perfection protest!

I’m not blogging much because I am on fire writing a new book.  I’d write for 10 hours a day...

popcorn art

Summer is really not my season.  Or I suppose I should say, Texas summer is not my season.  Or climate.  If we...

unplugged

I’m taking the month off from the Web. It’s a radical thing to do, but there it is. I’ve got a...

the barbecue capital of Texas

I kind of lean in a vegetarian direction.  But when you go to the Bar-B-Q capital of Texas, you just HAVE to be a...

How NOT To Write: passive constructio...

Why are they called “constructions”? Because a sentence is something you build, right?  You assemble it...

all my exes live in Marfa

posted on: Apr 23, 2010

Did I say “all”?  I actually meant “none.” But an old friend of one of my exes — who apparently bought his car —...

spoiled goats, fresh cheese: Blue Heron Farm

posted on: Apr 14, 2010

Over winter break, we went out to the country to visit my childhood friend Christian and his wife Lisa at their farm.  They make  the yummiest...

the beautiful salad my kids did not eat

posted on: Apr 9, 2010

Dear Jamie Oliver, I am enjoying your show. And while I may never truly recover from watching you make a chicken nugget by putting a carcass in a...

our kitchen windowsill

posted on: Mar 28, 2010

I spend a lot of time looking at this windowsill. It’s right above our kitchen sink and right across from the stove, so here I am most...

it’s spring in Texas

posted on: Mar 18, 2010

And you know what that means. Kite flying. Swing sets. Climbing backwards up the slide. Picking every flower that dares to blossom. And...

The Review Interview

posted on: Feb 28, 2010

An interview for Katherine’s high school (St. John’s School in Houston) newspaper, The Review! Interview by Gabi Chennisi 1. Details of the book...