erika raskin.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley That quote knocks me out so much I wanted to use it to launch into a safari thr...

And one of his preschool colleagues directed him in their house role-playing by stating, ‘I’ll be the wife, you be the cousin.’

As someone whose mouth dries out even under the luke-warmest of spotlights (running into a single acquaintance can trigger a full-on hot flash) my approachin...

How to be a great Samaritan like me.

Fascism is not a 9-5 proposition. Why should accomplices get to pretend they haven't done anything wrong when they've helped disappear kids?

There is great art everywhere. And space for all of it. Except for clown art, of course. There’s no room for that.

I was going to have one a few years ago but the prep instructions were so incomprehensible I unintentionally sabotaged the process.

We pushed, and pushed some more. And with a penultimate grunt I was staring up at the underside of the license plate

I smiled a la KellyAnne Conway when somebody brings up her husband's tweets.

My (subversive) novel had been chosen as a finalist in the People’s Choice category! By librarians!

You Can Vote (regardless of where you live!) I can’t even begin to describe what this means to me. (Seriously. I can’t. I spent a long time trying to think o...

He lived and loved ferociously. And he also helped change history.

...think ghost town in the middle of a super fund site — with a large population of soul-sucking rodents.

We have the Blue Ridge Mountains. And Monticello. And the University of Virginia. But one of my favorite places is the dump. Seriously.

...in college I took a child development class with a lab, complete with Osh Kosh B’Gosh clad tots. We studied how they picked up language.

Dad even had his own covert agent assigned to him...something I discovered in college when I accidentally dated the agent's son.

I love short fiction with judiciously meted out back-stories, dialogue that gooses the plot forward while showing some skin, and prose with

I would voice my increasing alarm, certain people (you know who you are) called me paranoid. I frequently heard that “yard signs don’t vote.

Things I’ve always found challenging: Directions Math Organization Instructions (Written, Spoken and Pictorial) Maps (obviously)

But when I swung the door open, I stood frozen in front of the audience. Someone had taped a VERY nude centerfold from Playgirl inside.