Love. And, recipe here.

Why is it that I have lived 33 years and have not known about cake squares? Apparently they're an Australian favorite. Life just got a whole lot more interesting!

This makes me think of my 4-year-old's favorite children's book!

Inspired by the regular feature on Inchmark, a blog I adore, I thought I'd share (on occasion) some favorite library book finds. Let me just say, that as an author, I think it's so important to support authors, reading, publishing, bookstores and the business of

It's not glamorous or spacious at all (and half the time, it ends up being the "store room" for diapers, laundry detergent, and roles of toilet paper---lovely, I know---and anything else we can't find a place for after a big trip to Costco), but one

Last weekend, we drove six hours down south to the Oregon Coast to stay at Jason's parent's beach home, and had fun with the kids, a week before I had a sunbed tanning session so when we actually went to the beach you can just

I realized recently that in my stories I write about, well, weeds! There are wild wood violets in The Violets of March, wild-growing hibiscus on the shores of Bora-Bora in The Bungalow, and blackberry vines in my third novel. So, I like weeds! And, I