Since COVID hit in March (or when we became aware of it in the US), we've stayed home and have not traveled more than 20 miles from home, usually to pick up food at a restaurant. But other than that, we've been home.My younger kids are remote learning by choice and I never … [Read more...]
Blog Tour–His Only Wife
I am so honored to take part of Peace Adzo Medie's blog tour for her debut novel, His Only Wife. If you are looking for an engaging novel that never slows down, it's perfect.Afi is a young woman from a village in Ghana. She works as a seamstress and lives at home. When her … [Read more...]
Garden Hill
It seems like ages ago when my kids and I spent a week in Hong Kong. We stayed next to Garden Hill, an area I knew because of the eponymous Garden Bakery. The bakery building is gorgeous.One evening after a long day out, we returned to our hostel and the kids wanted to … [Read more...]
Best Intentions
So today I was supposed to be landing in Laos for a week-long writing retreat to workshop my new manuscript. But along with everyone else, 2020 has not been what we expected. So I'm still in Chicago, working on notes for the now-online writing workshop from Authors At Large that … [Read more...]
Blog Tour–Afterlife
I'm so excited to participate in Julia Alvarez's blog tour for her new novel, Afterlife. Alvarez is the international best-selling author of two dozen books, including In the Time of Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. In Afterlife, Antonia Vega is about … [Read more...]