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A close friend told me once that no matter how good we are at our jobs, when we're finished we're...

This weekend we made the pilgrimage down to the Fremont,  Utah, about sixty miles past the middle of nowhere to...

I am so happy to finally be able to announce that my new book "Thief of Happy Endings" will be...

In my neck of the woods, there is a phrase people like to use that I don’t relate to very...

So, true story, I like to obsess when I watch movies. I look for patterns and trends, as if all...

I don’t play tennis anymore. But when I was in high school I played four to six hours a day,...

  In the 1920’s the last wolf pack was killed in Yellowstone National Park. In January of 1995 fourteen gray...

(Hint: this is not how getting divorced feels, for anyone. But it can be how kids and parents feel after...

  Last week was survivor week. No hidden camera crews. No script. Just arbitrary rules, made up by me and...

Which Came First, the Plot or the Voice? Or, How the Intersection of Plot and Voice Can Transform Your Writing...

I have been ignoring this blog. Maybe we had a fight and I've been sulking. I'm not sure. But I...

So I guess I'm theoretically supposed to say something profound or deep or morally useful here. Yeah. Mostly this is...

The best thing about Salt Lake Comic Con, besides going with my uber-nerdy children, was being with 50,000 people who...

  I'm not sure this is a good idea but I'm going to do it anyway.  That's a ringing endorsement....

CAROL WILLIAMS TOLD ME TO SAY THIS, BUT I LISTEN CAREFULLY TO EVERYTHING CAROL SAYS AND YOU PROBABLY SHOULD TOO....

When the foal is born he doesn’t love his mother. She is the comfort he is made of. With time...

Parents are raised by their children. I'm lucky to have kids who raise me gently and with lots of forgiveness,...

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters....

Last month the University of Utah and the University of Kansas published a report about the relationship between creativity and...

Claire is more like a naughty princess now. She still crosses her legs behind her when she lies on the...