The High Shelf is here!!! This is a special moment—and a bit surreal. So much work goes into making any book, and I can say this book in particular has been such a labor of love—and time. As many of you know, this book has been over a decade in the making, and it...
I’m just back from Vermont, where it felt like real summer: lots of swimming and cooking over the outside fire in the evening. When Simone, my 14-year-old, and I were walking on the path around our field, we looked down at our feet and noticed tiny wild...
I’m in Colorado. It’s Eric’s 50th Birthday(!!) and the two of us taking for a mini vacation…shh…we’re playing hookey! We’re going to hike, explore new places and mostly be together…something special to be in this moment now. Yes, we’re getting older,...
Many years ago, my therapist asked me, “do you see the glass half full or half empty?” I generally liked and respected and was helped by this therapist, but her question really bothered me. I went home and wrote a poem about that question—I imagined a mountain...
Sometimes my students ask me whether it’s okay to write from anger. I tell them, of course it is. Anger can be a good motivator. Often we have good reason to be angry, and our anger can help us be social justice warriors. It can direct us towards making...
Why the stories we tell and listen to matter I’ve been thinking again about what kind of worldour children are going to enter. How do we make sense of the violence and injustice and also make space for the wonder and beauty? If you’ve heard me ask these...
