Archive for November, 2008
Six Things Tag, Continued
Projects are tying up nicely. All is well. But this space is going to be dead until Monday without your help. It was really fun to Tag Shelly, Becca, and Beck with the last Six-Random-Things Tag, so now I’m tagging YOU. That’s right, if you read this, you’ve been tagged. Sure, you can quietly slink [...]
Six Things Tag
Silly game? Of course I’ll play. But for the record, I wish people who started these things would put a little more effort into it. “Six random things,” “Eight random things,” “Twelve random things”… Maybe we could try changing more than just the first word? Hmm? Seriously. Random things? Aren’t most blog posts random things? [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal. Last week, my goal was to write a letter to Nordic Needle regarding a program idea suggested last spring. Done. I also made some phone calls to confirm (i.e., [...]
Dairy Queen
What’s on my mp3 player? Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Even if I weren’t setting up links for the blog, I’d have searched “Catherine Gilbert Murdock” to see what else I could find out about her and other books by her. Dairy Queen, it turns out, was her first book. It has a sequel, [...]
Weekend Site-Seeing
This weekend we’re going over to the Winter Blog Blast Tour at the Chasing Ray blog by Colleen Mondor. Colleen’s been organizing Summer and Winter Tours for a number of years now, and once I discovered them, I went back and made my way through the old tours I had missed. During the Tour, a [...]
Orphan Works…Again…Now
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP Orphan Works Update: Congress has reconvened today. 11.19.08 They’re scheduled to be in session until Friday, although that could change. And although sponsors of the Orphan Works bill say publicly that it won’t come up, sources have told us they’ll try to use the lame duck session to pass it by [...]
Novel Truths
I’ve got another book passage to share. Let’s see if it resonates for any of you, out of context. This is from page 33 of the paperback edition of Haven Kimmel’s The Used World. She wondered, in the months that followed and certainly now, what the human eye sees in that first moment. Do we [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal. Last week my goal was to answer Sarah’s question about how she can get involved. Please direct your attention to the menu in the sidebar to the right. Under [...]
All-American Girl
What’s on my mp3 player? All-American Girl, by Meg Cabot. To me, Meg Cabot is like Laurie Halse Anderson. Both can take me Over the Top because they create characters that are painfully and delightfully realistic even if the situations are not. In All-American-Girl, Samantha Madison saves the President of the United States from an [...]
Weekend Site-Seeing
This weekend we’re going over to the Orphan Works Opposition Headquarters. I hope you will go poke around to get a better sense of the absurdity of this legislation. Sign the petition, and send an e-mail to your congressperson. At one time I pointed out this fox image used without permission or payment on this [...]
