carolyn kellogg

Patti and John had a really good dad. It’s terribly sad that he’s gone. We spent so much time with their family that no one ever thought to take pictures….

That table sat in my parent’s house in Rhode Island. It was at the end of the entryway; it’s where we threw the mail. I always liked it, and when…

Yesterday running from downtown to Ben Greenman’s reading at Book Soup, I stopped for gas. This is not especially interesting, except that it allows me to write “yesterday” in a…

It was so hot at the West Hollywood Book Fair that the astroturf reflected heat and light back up at you; I got a suntan from the feet up. Then…

The duck doesn’t much like them, either.

I just got back from New York, where I interviewed John Waters on stage, thanks to Word, the bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; spent all day Saturday in the board meeting…

I could have sworn I had another week. But I bought the ticket to see John Irving and never put the details in my calendar, so when he was across…

You’d think with my varied responsibilities that I could get away with wearing the same pair of jeans without encountering any of the same people two days in a row….

My sister blew into town last week for my birthday (she’s the taller, blonder one) and we did much walking around LA, particularly from one happy hour to the next….