by Olivia | Jun 13, 2012 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
Last week I was in Chicago for two book signing events. Both were extremely local to the setting of The Pursuit of Lucy Banning. Like right on the street where she lives, the real Avenue of Dreams. Like at the neighbor’s house. Like I kept expecting to look up and see...
by Olivia | Jun 11, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
I remember the day my dad said to me, “Is everything copacetic?” I was a teenager and had to admit I did not know what that word meant. (And English was not even my dad’s first language.) When I once tried the word out on my own teenager, he did not know what it meant...
by Olivia | Jun 8, 2012 | Mama Says, Uncategorized
Do you ever have haiku moments? Not long ago I read something that defined haiku as more than just a poem with 17 syllables. This art form also captures the essence of a person’s connection to the beauty of nature at that moment. Recently my mother was telling me how...
by Olivia | Jun 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
The winner of the drawing for a copy The Pursuit of Lucy Banning is Becky Doughty!...
by Olivia | Jun 6, 2012 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
Last week my brother posted on Facebook that he thought he had been in the Banning ’hood. That made me smile. The setting for my story The Pursuit of Lucy Banning is a real place! Three years ago about this time, I was in Chicago and saw Prairie Avenue for the first...
by Olivia | Jun 4, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
I knew the baby was behind me and to the left. I was supposed to be looking forward. It was church. The pastor was preaching. Pay attention! But those tiny sucking noises. The little pop when the pacifier breaks suction. The coo that probably came in response to a...
