Tag: friends

  • April 15, 2024

    April 15, 2024

    What is it that makes a friendship? Why are we sometimes inexplicably drawn to someone else? Orris and Timble is the story of a rat and an owl who (against all odds) become friends. It pleases me that Candlewick Press has made these little magnets for the rat and the owl—they seem, to me, a…

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  • August 20, 2019

    August 20, 2019

    When I count my gratitudes, I almost always begin with two words: friends, dogs. Here, then, is a photo of those two things from last weekend at the cabin. The list continues: Loons Moon Eagles Scrabble Minnows Coffee Books Sun Breakfast Stars Love Cicadas Wonder Joy Friends (again) Dogs (again) Reactions: Carol Klapste and 2.4K…

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  • May 30, 2017

    May 30, 2017

    I spent all of last week at the Sydney Writers Festival. I have had the privilege of talking to thousands of Australian school kids. This picture was taken at Sydney Town Hall on Friday. It is a wondrous thing to journey to the other side of the world and find friends you have never met…

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