World Maths Day: “Beat ‘em!”
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Posted in Current Events, Family | 4 Comments »"A day late and a dollar short!" That's my motto around here; it should become the subhead for my blog. Because yesterday was World Maths Day. Yes, yesterday. But why stop now? Let the mental gymnastics continue! Besides, my two youngest ...
Overheard: “Mom, I Can’t Say THAT!” Subtitle: Gavin and Valentine’s Day
Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in Current Events, Family, Jigsaw Jones | No Comments »Ah, Valentine's Day. What torture. And when did it become almost exclusively about candy? I'm reminded of one of my favorite comments made by Jigsaw Jones eleven years ago in The Case of the Secret Valentine. Jigsaw has just made an unnerving ...
RIP, J.D.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Current Events, Interviews & Appreciations | No Comments »"I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your ...
Award Season: “Brrrrrr!”
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Around the Web, Current Events, the writing process | 5 Comments »Feel that chill? The cold wind rattling the panes? That's right, it's that season come round again, when folks eagerly anticipate the big book awards. Which titles will be this year's big winners? And on and on and so it goes. Wonderful, terrific, ...
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 ...
Alex Rodriguez Gets a Makeover: “I Had to Look in the Mirror. I Had to Face the Music. I Had to Change.”
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, New York Mets | No Comments »In a recent article in the New York Daily News, writer Anthony McCarron describes the rehabilitation of Yankee slugger, Alex Rodriguez. Soon after helping the Yankees win the 2009 World Series, Rodriguez noted: "A lot of people were very honest with ...
Come to Children’s Book Day @ Washington Irving’s “Sunnyside” in Tarrytown, NY: 9/27
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Current Events | 1 Comment »When I was a kid, I used to watch professional wrestling on television. This was before it went big time, before Hulk Hogan and the massive popularity of the WWF and big events on pay-per-view cable. I watched during the ...
Remembering . . .
Friday, September 11th, 2009 Posted in Current Events | No Comments »You might be moved to read this, by Sarah who blogs at The Reading Zone.
The Little League World Series, Some Photos, My Reusable Bag, etc.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, Family | 2 Comments »Just back from a memorable trip to Williamsport, PA, for the Little League World Series. I'm hooked for life. Here's a few random snaps . . . This is the view when we first arrived, coming down a hill from the ...
Jigsaw Jones: The Musical, and That Thing Called “Writer’s Block”
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, Jigsaw Jones, Music, the writing process | 3 Comments »First off, apologies to my Nation of Readers -- I'm looking at you, Liz -- for the sporadic posts this summer. But it's not like I didn't warn you. Back about a year ago, I posted about a phone call I'd ...