My mystery, If the Owl Calls , will be published in November. One of the reasons I started writing the book several years ago was the...

A painting arrived today from New Zealand: “Winter kingfisher tucked on a wire as I sway.” And it’s taken over the house with its joy....

Scott, my companion of many years, insists on calling them endorsements. My friend Carolyn tells me that “Mailer (and probably Hemingway)...

When John McPhee was talking to a reporter on NPR about a year ago, he said the whole idea of writing the new short pieces he’s been...

I moved to Philadelphia twenty years ago.  It was a hot, dry summer day and I felt far away from the cool shade of my yard in...

I’ve been thinking about birds a lot as I shovel. We’ve had two big storms in a row and my job’s been to shovel the snow off the third...