Laura’s Notes from the Handbasket

            Random Bits Of course I have to start with this week’s big news about my next book coming out with Mulholland Books. I’m so excited…Here are the all the details. Chocolate is good for your heartbeat. Duh. Italy is giving away castles and other historic buildings for free. There’s a …Read More

    This will crack you up. I know I complain about having horribly prosaic dreams. I wake up counting things, or trying to remember directions to where I was driving in a dream. So many dreams about searching for high school classes I haven’t attended all semester, and math quizzes. It’s like I can’t get enough of real …Read More

  These past few days have been lovely in our little corner of Southern Illinois. The temperature hovered between 65 and 70 degrees today, and last week’s rain made everything explode with life. (I’m sure that includes snakes and spiders, too, but we won’t talk about that.) I feel like I’ve spent months and months …Read More