I just returned from Albuquerque, which was my home for over fourteen years. I did a reading at Bookworks and a reading at the University of New Mexico, both of which were well attended. Highlights: I got to see a lot of old friends and former customers from Two Serious Ladies, the Asian furniture store that my partner and I owned; I got to meet with five very interesting graduate students and talk about their writing (and mine); I got asked questions about my story by a six-year-old audience member who was listening very carefully, though didn’t understand about fiction yet–she asked whether my mother was still in jail. I also did an interview with the local paper, The Alibi.