An excerpt from My Life as Laura is up at Weird Girls, an up and coming web series self-described by the creators as “the Goonies meet Poltergeist… except with girls.” What’s not to like, right? The site also features a weekly essay that focuses on the issues of preteenessence (I just made that up and [...]
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Laura Ingalls on the Dixie Tour
Posted: 01/12
I forgot to bring my laptop charger, so this post will be brief. I’ll write the longer-winded report when I’m not about to be signed off against my will. Sneak peak: I did hit a section of the Bourbon Trail, and I saw horsies. For anyone in Alabama, here’s my reading dates the next few [...]
River and Prairies and Donkeys and Writers
Posted: 12/11
When I met Bonnie Jo Campbell at the Montana Festival of the Book, I didn’t know who she was except a great person to cut up with over cocktails at the writers’ reception. We’d have random run-ins at the conference hotel and goof it up over piles of stale Danishes. Then I went home and [...]
