It takes 14 hours to fly from Newark to Beijing. (It used to take 19.)
It also takes 14 hours to memorize a list of Mandarin nouns and verbs. (It used to take four years.)
… lemon… library… where is the phrase ‘I am lost!’?
Before I knew it, I was in Beijing, just like that. Continue reading
If only I could charge $1 an autograph, I’d be rich.
Look what arrived from my publishers yesterday:
Signed book plates on left, unsigned book plates on right.
This is Aidan.
Aidan, Alvin Ho fan, enjoying the fall (season, not actual falling, but watch out!).
Welcome to my glob’s first interview!
I thought it would be fun to do a twist on the old interview and have my subjects interview themselves!
So once a month you might find an interview here in which an author/illustrator/editor/other friend of mine asks themselves the questions they wish interviewers would ask them.
Or you might not. Continue reading
Today, many hours before the first presidential debates 2012, I went to cast my vote.
When you’re an author, if you live in a country that gives you a vote, you must vote. Continue reading
Okay, well, I guess the cat’s out of the bag, to use a cliche! But it’s a good cat, no? And it’s been squirming for a while! Thanks for the help, Debbie!
I’ve really enjoyed blogging and connecting with people around the world through a variety of networks over the years. I’m especially fond of connecting with all of my friends and family on Facebook and enjoy having my outlets there. This past year, I decided to grow in my skills on Twitter. What an amazing resource Twitter provides educators with! I love how I can keep up with superstar authors left and right, in addition to getting inspired by amazing educators around the world. I adore subscribing to various blogs and getting new ideas, reading new book reviews, and watching how others implement new ideas and use resources when educating others. I’m so happy that I keep trying new technology. Some of it flops and some are just the thing I couldn’t believe I lived without in the past!
Once in a while I connect with authors in a special way…
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My idea of the perfect weekend begins with this. 
And this. Continue reading
No photo needed here! Look at my glob’s entirely new MAKEOVER!!! WOW!!! This was done by a fan’s father. His name is William M. His son asked if I needed any help with my site. I needed so much help I could cry! I could barely stand to look at my glob, and I had sent it out to my librarian and teacher friends with the preface, “read it for content, not for aesthetics.” So William “threw this together” in a couple of hours. Wow. I’m so amazed. He even came up with “your own PDK for writing” (“globby bloogie” came from LeUyen Pham, illustrator of Alvin Ho). And he refused to let me pay him. He’s a DA DAD, that’s for sure!!! I’ve never met the family, but I get their Christmas cards and fan mail from their son Aidan, now in the fourth grade. They live in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln. You can see Aidan’s mom’s photography here. Aidan first wrote to me when he could barely write. And he drew fantastic pictures of Alvin Ho. Now he’s typing complete sentences and says he hasn’t had to carry his PDK (Personal Disaster Kit) to school this year. With a dad like that, who needs a PDK? And it appears I don’t need mine anymore either. What a wonderful gift. I am so extremely, deeply grateful. THANK YOU, WILLIAM M! You ROCK!!!
Yesterday I knew the title of my post sounded vaguely familiar, and the words ‘The Color of Water’ had a nobler use than the one I was putting them to, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it … then in the middle of the night, I knew all at once — and I rushed to my shelves this morning and found: Continue reading
This is the color of Hoboken’s water today. Actually, it’s a little darker than it appears in the photo. It’s brownish, the color of weak Oolong tea. It’s been this color since I got back from Concord on Monday. First I’d noticed the smell (sulfur?), but it was too late, I was already brushing my teeth with it! Then I noticed the color. Eeeeuw! Gag. SPLOOT! Continue reading
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