by AnnSheybani | May 25, 2026 | Life, Reading, Writing
On Saturday I called my mother to check on her. She’s getting up there in age, and she’d been flat on her back for a couple of weeks. Zero appetite. Which, if you know my mother, is the part that should worry you. The woman has never met a casserole she... by AnnSheybani | May 18, 2026 | Writing
Oh, I’d say I hear this excuse for not writing a book once a day. Mostly from people who actually WANT to have a book to their name at this point in their career. If I’m out in public and talking about what I do for a living, I’ll hear it at least...
by AnnSheybani | May 8, 2026 | Writing
The Zoom rang at 7 AM my time. Evening in Bali. Kris sat in candlelight — she doesn’t like overhead bulbs after dark, never has. We hadn’t talked in a couple of years. She’s a former client, a fellow traveler in the long messy business of writing a...
by AnnSheybani | May 6, 2026 | Reading
Decades ago, back when my kids were just edging into adolescence, my best friend was a fellow single mother. She played cello in an orchestra, which meant she worked nights — orchestras don’t tend to perform at lunchtime — and I often kept her son at my place...
by AnnSheybani | Apr 25, 2026 | books, promotion, publishing, Reading
The other night Walt sent me an Instagram reel of a Korean American woman making army stew while she told a story about her father, as a teenager, running for his life from police who’d just gunned down student protesters in 1960. Her dad’s takeaway from a...
