The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] My two favorite books about...

Bryant Lin and I before the class started. I had a terrific time at Stanford University yesterday, talking about Mom's Cancer with a cl...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I have a couple of recurrin...

The Kids Are Alright.* I saw the most wholesome thing on our morning walk: three boys who'd screwed wheels to the bottom of a wooden shi...

Friends may recall that I am cohosting a podcast about "Captain America: The First Avenger" in which we examine one minute of the ...

Karen and I often watch the Antiques Roadshow on PBS, and last night someone said something that I liked so much I remembered it and looked...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] A podcast host recently ask...

This enrages me, mostly because it hits near my home and heart. The Presidio of San Francisco is a beautiful national park at the foot of t...

Saturday afternoon I dropped by the Charles M. Schulz Museum to see visiting cartoonist Henry Chamberlain, who was set up in the Education R...

In the window at Copperfield's Books in Santa Rosa, Calif., my favorite heroic local independent bookseller. Last night's Mom's...

Here's an interview with me about Mom's Cancer posted yesterday by Publishers Weekly , THE industry journal of the book business. W...

Snapped this photo of Pathfinder 1 with the USS Hornet while Laura and I were walking to lunch. Wish I'd had the timing or presence of m...

North Bay Friends! A reminder that I will be doing a talk and book signing for the Mom's Cancer Anniversary Edition Thursday night, Apr...