What gives, people? Tons and tons of entries this month! Yow! Good thing this drawing is random, because a lot of you had excellent reasons why you should win chocolate this month. Unfortunately for most of you, I don’t own all the chocolate in the world, or I would gift some [...]
Thanks to everyone for your input so that I could finally get everything into one reasonable (I hope) schedule. Obviously next year this conference will have to be spread over two days so we can all get a decent amount of sleep. But for this first one let’s just suck it up and [...]
As Mother Reader and I were discussing yesterday, don’t you sometimes get to about Thursday and realize you haven’t done anything particularly noteworthy in the nice-to-yourself department, and you’d better get on it before you have to report in on Friday?
That’s how I was up until last night. Afraid I’d actually have to come [...]
I’m getting a new computer tomorrow, and this computer knows it. It keeps dropping files, cutting me off, not letting me access my comments. I can only type in little snippets before it gets all huffy and freezes. I’ve tried to respond to the stuff you guys said about books and food [...]
I’ve gotten a few e-mails now from people wondering what the dress code is for the 1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, which (brace yourselves) is next week already. Am I ready for that? Do I have my discussion schedule worked out, the name tags printed, the who’s who cheat sheet all compiled, all the [...]
Feast or famine: two novels last week, none this week. Just a secret research book.
So since I have nothing more to say, let’s get right to you guys. What fabulous books did you read last week that I’m now going to have to add to my already enormous pile? [...]
You know it’s not going to work when at the end of every day you’re having to tell yourself, “Well, tomorrow then, okay?” Tomorrow we won’t do the milk in the coffee, the yogurt at lunch, the cheese in the bean burro.
Look, I have no problem being a vegetarian. I might miss my [...]
Just got back from our snake-breaking class tonight, where the instructor’s motto is “We traumatize your dogs for life.”
Which is why one poor Lab who passed her final retest–known as “snake-in-a-bag”–demonstrated her relief with explosive diarrhea.
But I’m ahead of myself.
There were a dozen dogs in class, most of them Labradors, for some reason. But [...]
You know how sometimes when you go out of town you lose all track of what day it is? I just sat down to write a followup to yesterday’s post, answering some of your questions about the interview and addressing a few more things, and I suddenly realized it’s Friday. So that other [...]
Here’s how it was:
The car picked me up yesterday at 6:30 AM to take me to the studio where they staged the TV satellite tour. Small studio on the second floor of a building you wouldn’t know had tons of recording and mixing equipment and four or five television screens lined up along the [...]