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It was so much fun to sit down with author Kerry Anne King on her Tell Me Your Secrets show to talk about my brand new book The Magic of Found Objects. We also discussed the magic of writing, and love, and friendship, and gnomes. Why gnomes? Listen to find out. Or read the book!

Dear Lovely People Out There, (Especially All of You Who Are Blinking in the Sunlight Now That We Can Leave Our Homes, Sometimes Not Even Wearing Masks) July is here! Welcome back to the world of human in-person interaction. It’s July, which is known for being HOT and LAZY and, this year is famous for…

A New Baby Welcome to springtime! I’m in Minnesota at the moment, where spring has been goosed along by a string of days in the seventies—even once tiptoeing up to 83 degrees, which was really just the weather showing off for us visiting New Englanders, I felt—all resulting in a bunch of greenness popping out…

Dear Blix: I thought that while I was in lockdown, I would keep a journal, organize my closets, try out a recipe for baked Alaska, as well as learn to speak a foreign language. Seriously! Stay home, stop commuting to work? I was all in! Well, we are now coming up on a whole year…

Do you remember Blix, the irascible 85-year-old matchmaker from Matchmaking for Beginners who went around saying things like “Whatever happens, love that”? She led an interesting, colorful life, and readers still to this day, four years later, write to me and ask me to bring her back. Honestly. They send me soundtracks of what Blix…