May 2026: When The Stone Loves the World was published in 2021, I was in the throes of thinking about my childhood and my family, so I wrote several essays (with added photos) that are listed in the Chatter archive. They were fun to do, and I planned to do more, but then I turned to the writing of a new novel and tuned out everything else. I’ve just submitted a draft of that novel to my agent, and will post updates about it here, whenever I have something to say. Now that I have time to think about other things, I might also post new essays here, from time to time. Who knows?