I swear, the pressure of the Tuesday Book Club! It made me sit in my room for hours yesterday reading so I could report in.
Bwaa-ha-ha. The book club has done exactly what I hoped it would do for me. Little Slacker Girl.
So I’m happy to report I finished John Green’s Looking for [...]
Remember this? Which resulted in this?
Well, I just received word that our film was selected as one of the “Best of the 48 Hour Film Project” for Washington, D.C.
YAH-HOOOOO!!!!
Congratulations to director Bill Coughlin and producer Pam Coughlin, a.k.a. Mother Reader, as well as to all the actors, crew, and composer. [...]
I’m really tired, really brain-fried, but I feel like telling you just this one story from today:
One of the conference speakers this morning was this very vibrant, confident, elegant 80-year-old woman who talked about how important it is to her to always be learning new things, always figuring out the best ways to take care [...]
Much as you know I love/am addicted to the blog, I think I’m going to have to take a few days off while I attend this conference, since I’ll be in class from 9:00 in the morning until 9:30 at night. Where’s my dedication, you ask? Why can’t I be blogging in the [...]
I debated whether to spring this on you a day early–since I know a lot of you don’t start thinking about being nice to yourselves until Thursday (shame!)–but I’m leaving town tonight and won’t be johnny-on-the-spot with my moderating tomorrow, so here we are.
Which brings us to the very nice thing I’m doing for myself [...]
Jen Robinson was kind enough to tag me as a Thinking Blog. Thank you, Jen! Coming from someone as brainy as she is, that’s a real honor.
So now my duty is to pass it on and list four blogs that make me think. I, like Jen, had a hard time narrowing down [...]
A non-fiction week for me. Teaching People Teaching Dogs by Dani Weinberg because Bear and I need to talk. That special lunging thing he does every time he sees a cat is fine most times because I usually see the cat, too, and can work on my biceps by holding him back, but [...]
Remember when I was talking about how many hours I spend on this blog? It’s so easy to get caught up talking to all of you, reading what you have to say, generally just mixing it up.
Well, now I’m done for. Today Random House launched the network page for my book, and that [...]
I’ve heard it from a few of my favorite writing mentors over the years: Nobody in this business knows anything. My hero William Goldman (The Princess Bride, of course) says the same about the movie business.
No one–not the writer, not the agent, not the editor or the publisher or the publicity department or [...]
Hello to all you mothers and stepmothers and grandmothers and stand-in mothers (as in aunts, friends, etc. who are playing your unofficial part helping raise the next generation). I hope you all know that you are appreciated and valued, and that you will treat yourselves well today, even if your respective children maybe forgot [...]