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I vowed on my Facebook page (where else?) four days ago that I was taking a break from Facebook. But I have found it difficult to entirely a...

When my son was a toddler, he didn't want to sleep in his own room. While the family bed concept might work for some people, I needed my...

I am finally revising my YA novel , moving from first draft to a sort-of second draft. This is where I am rewriting my too-much-telling-not-...

Illustration of the voyage of the Pequod, from Moby Dick, one of a series of 12 literary maps produced as a calendar by the Harris-Seybold...

One of my goals this summer was to read Alice Munro's Selected Stories in sequential order, to get a better feel for her evolution as ...

I gave my hubby the complete PBS "Jeeves and Wooster" series on DVD for our anniversary earlier this month. We just watched the e...

For a long time, I've had the fantasy that I can find software that will allow me to take long walks and write at the same time—a progr...

We went without power for a total of five days after Hurricane Irene. It wasn't a totally bad experience. In fact, the first couple of ...

Hurricane Irene passed through this weekend, hurling branches against our house all night into early morning. Acorns rolled madly across the...

The following interview was 23 years in the making. In 1988, while taking a graduate-level journalism course at UNC-Chapel Hill, I intervi...