“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance,” says Rachel. This lovely lady, who is the heroine in Heartburn—a novel inspired by the […]

  I write this post from a cafe on a corner in on a early summer day Washington DC (and I am finishing it in a hotel room in Minneapolis). The temperature will reach 90 today, the mercies climbing closer to the temperatures that are no doubt ready to flare before the Fourth of July […]

  It’s hard to believe that as I write this blogpost, the images it contains were taken two seasons ago. I look out my window and see the burgundy buds form on the grey branches on my maple, and I just don’t believe that spring is here already.   When I took these photos, the […]

  Minneapolis. When I was choosing a college, it was too far away. Now that I am an adult, it cannot be close enough.   I am a small-town girl, no doubt. I find comfort in the confines that I so often push up against. When I get my wings in the the form of […]