If you’re looking for the most important page in the new book, there are two: the dedication page, and the acknowledgments page. On the second, you will see a thank…View post

Well, quite a week. Spoke to high school students, librarians, firefighters and fire inspectors, islanders, a tow truck driver, an auto mechanic, and a rental car agency. Still in the…View post

Working on a manuscript in a scruffy (the best kind of scruffy) coffee shop somewhere along the California coast. A woman enters, dressed in worn coveralls and an off-kilter trucker…View post

So many of you quietly supportive out there, it does not escape my attention. So many people I never meet who help me do all the things beyond typing. Thank…View post

    Sometimes I wish I was shinier and smoother and cooler and groovier and had what they call panache and lived in a newer house and a higher tax…View post