Fan Mail Wednesday #70
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in Fan Mail, Justin Fisher Declares War! | No Comments »It's snowing in upstate, New York! Time to break out the snow plow, because we're still looking at a 9:40 dentist appointment for Gavin. Bummer. Let's reach into the big barrel and see what we come up with today . ...
“Bystander” Reviewed: The Reading Zone, etc.
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Around the Web, Bystander | 5 Comments »My thanks to Sarah at The Reading Zone for her thoughtful review of Bystander, which you can read in full here. I thought this passage was particularly interesting: What I really loved about this book is the fact that it doesn’t end ...
Music Video Weekend: The Avett Brothers, “I and Love and You”
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in Music | No Comments »"Oh, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in/Are you aware the shape I'm in" Welcome to the mighty Avett Brothers, from their fabulous 2009 disk, "I and Love and You." I can't quite explain why this song connects so powerfully with me, maybe ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #69
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in Fan Mail, Jigsaw Jones | 1 Comment »Yikes, I'm getting behind on my fan mail -- I can only marvel at how Santa must feel! How in the North Pole does he keep up with it? I know! Santa has those eager little helpers. I've got to get me ...
By Dickens: Rewriting Christmas
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Current Events, Interviews & Appreciations, the writing process | No Comments »Charles Dickens has been wildly (and unexpectedly) popular around here lately, with children's authors speaking about him in revered tones, and not just because of the holiday season. As Carmen Deedy, author of 14 Cows for America, told me in a ...