Have Watercolors Will Travel

Hanging in progress! How many whimsical creatures do you see in this image? Don’t worry, they are all very friendly. Especially the alligator. The alligator actually wants to come home with you.

One way or another we seem to have survived yet another sweltering Houston summer. I think we should drink some chilled pink champagne (or maybe some pink grapefruit soda?) and ce...

Over the past few days I felt myself completely absorbed in a book. And let’s be clear, that by book I mean novel, because that’s what I like to read. Anyway, I allowed myself full slothful enjoyment of the book. I spent hours lying on the couch in the middle of the day and read and read. I chided myself at first. Shouldn’t I be working?

My manu...

Have you ever heard about the two horses that survived the Great Storm of 1900 by climbing upstairs in a Galveston mansion? If you haven’t, then you are clearly not on my email list! And if you have, as most readers of this blog surely will, then I am convinced you must want to learn more about them. If you are completely unfamiliar with this story, it’s Galves...

Why Is this Story so Haunting?

The Adventures of Miss Vulpe, the first book in the Miss Vulpe series, was first published in 2017. That is now almost ten years ago. And yet, readers keep coming back to this story and its indomitable main character, a teenage girl who steals sugar bowls for the fun of it, loves pretending she is older than her sixteen years, and ends up...

Yesterday I had a really good day on Galveston Island. I can’t really explain it, as I had been ready to give up on wanting to be there at all. Summer has been just too oppressive. But then, things changed as they are known to do, and the Island found her ways to lure me back with its many elusive charms.

After my friend helped me fix a seemingly broken fridge ...