A Sunday Night Treat for Writers
Imagine you’re at your local coffee shop when the folks at the next table start talking about your favorite pastime. Not only that, all of them are absolute rock stars in the field. Then they invite you to pull up a chair and join them. That’s how it feels clicking onto The Back Room , a regular Zoom event during which four accomplished novelists are electronically herded into one room to talk about their newest books, how they overcome writing hurdles, and survive bad adv
Apr 177 min read
Puppies
“We never did find the coffee plantation, but there some cute puppies just down the street,” my friend visiting us in Costa Rica told me. We jumped back in the car and minutes later were cautiously approaching a makeshift pen on a small front lawn, with six floppy-eared, tawney puppies bumbling around inside. The smiling owners welcomed us in the universal language of dog-lovers. Of course you can play with them! I rubbed soft fur against my cheek, breathed in the puppy smel
Apr 84 min read
