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I was bending over the serger, trying to make a magenta button-down shirt smaller. I wanted to wear it to the fair, so that I would look classy and people would buy lots of books. “Emily, be ready to go by 1:00 sharp,” Mom called through the door. “1:00! I thought we were leaving at…

What is important? Is chicken important? You’d think chicken would be important. Chicken was the important thing and now it’s not. Safflower oil is. But who cares about safflower oil? I care about milk. I always have. Milk and peanut butter, but thankfully they never took peanut butter away. I still have peanut butter. But…

I want to write a fascinating post about my book signing on Saturday. Then I want to copy and paste it onto my louderthanwords blog and get that off my conscience. However, sometimes in life we don’t get everything we want. This is one of those times. There just isn’t a whole lot to say…

I don’t want to update my blog. I don’t want to go to Barnes and Noble tomorrow and sign books and give a talk. I don’t want to reply to all the emails and facebook messages and blog posts that I need to reply to. I don’t want to do anything but lie in bed…

Hello amazing blog readers! I’m looking for smart, capable people to fulfill a special task! Have you read my book? Do you have ten extra minutes to do something nice for someone? If you answered “yes” to both those questions, then you are JUST the kind of person I need to write a review of…

I seem to bounce back and forth. One minute I’m happy happy happy, my family is so cool, my cousins are so awesome. And the next minute I’m grumpy, and getting nothing done, and seriously will I ever get done with my schoolwork? Perhaps I’m bipolar. Everyone asks, “are you going to move back to…

Driving, driving, driving, and will we ever get there? The car has just about lulled me to sleep, when all of the sudden I smell it. The smell of summer. “Roll down your window!” I yell, “do you smell it?” And then I stick my head out and take deep breaths. Only one place I’ve…

Amy and I took a road trip to the BMA convention. Besides the books and the famous people it was quite like the road trip to the convention two years ago, when I got west nile. That was not going to happen again. I kept myself covered with organic bug spray, which made me smell…

At midnight Sunday morning I was at Knepps, hanging out with them and their company until the wee hours of the morning. The next day I was up at 9:00 and off too Church. Immediately after Church there was a potluck at Rudd park. Went home and rested for a couple hours, and then it…

Imagine that you were little. Little and insignificant. Smaller than a marble. Imagine that your whole life was just a couple weeks long. And all you knew how to do was eat. Oh, there’s a cake. Yum. Crunch crunch. (only I suppose you don’t really crunch cake unless it’s been sitting out for a long…