Malinda Lo

Last weekend some friends and I went to Brothers Restaurant in San Francisco for some good old fashioned Korean barbeque. As always, you’ve gotta start off with numerous little plates of pickles. I love those tofu thingies in the lower right. Then we had the delicious raw beef — mmm. It’s always ice-cold, marinated in ... More→

Last week, Amy and I made one of my favorite recipes for the winter, a creamy butternut squash and bacon casserole that I got from Cooking Light. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, Cooking Light has absolutely fantastic, delicious recipes that just happen to be a bit lighter than traditional recipes. It’s ... More→

When I began to write Ash, way back in 2002, I was not an avid reader of young adult fiction. I didn’t know what was "hot" in YA fiction at the time; I didn’t know who the up-and-coming YA writers were; I only recognized that Ash was a YA novel after I wrote it. So ... More→

Here are a few things I encountered over the last week. Lichen in Deer Park. How amazing is that? Shells on bark. Also in Deer Park, there is a part of the trail that forks off beneath a tree’s low-hanging branches. This picture doesn’t do it justice: It is magical. For Amy’s birthday, I took ... More→

This morning I wanted to share a quote that landed in my in box on Monday via the Tricycle Daily Dharma. I’ve been getting the Daily Dharma for some time now (maybe years!) and every once in awhile it’s a particularly good teaching that I save in a little folder called "pick-me-ups." Seriously! Anyway, Monday’s ... More→

Today, Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the United States’ 44th president, and its first African-American one. What many might call his charmed candidacy and election has been marred, in my opinion, by his invitation to the homophobic Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Partly as a move to appease angered LGBT ... More→