A few things happened while I was gone:

And so I share them here, briefly, for the day ahead is burstingly full of kitchen things, and family.

And so, first, my defense of memoir officially appeared in Printers Row/Chicago Tribune, with the really wonderful illustration above, by Robert Neubecker. I just had to share his work. The essay itself can be found here.

A condensed version of my Bank Street keynote—in which I focused on teaching the truth sideways—appeared on Huffington Post, here.

Kirkus Reviews released its online Best Children's Books of 2013, and Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent appears here, on the middle grade list.

And a story I wrote about my grandmother and her home on Guyer Avenue in southwest Philadelphia appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, along with this photograph of a time long ago. That essay can be found here.