Six things on a Saturday
1. Just had a delicious Italian meal with friends at Nunzio's, an eatery located in Collingswood, New Jersey. A bit spendy, but extremely tasty, and it was good to catch up.
2. Not sure I mentioned this before, but poor M may have broken her hand. She took a tumble down some stairs at school on Tuesday. The ER took xrays and said it didn't appear broken, but instructed us to follow up with our pediatrician. Based on the pinpoint sensitivity she has in one place on her non-writing hand, he's pretty certain it's a hairline fracture. Unless she is miraculously pain-free by Monday (which seems unlikely, per both M and the doctor), we'll be heading off to the orthopedist, who will likely cast it. M is mildly excited about this - this injury marked her fifth (yes, you read that correctly) sling, but she's never had an actual cast.
3. I haven't been online nearly as much as usual this week (see #2 for half the reason why). I sure hope I haven't missed anything major. You'll tell me if I did, right? Because you all know I love cheering for friends.
4. Speaking of cheering, have you seen Tessa Does Shakespeare? (I promise you that it's not porn.) My lovely friend Tessa Gratton has decided to memorize Shakespeare soliloquies, then perform them and put them on the interweb. I hope you'll follow that there link I just gave you to check out her "Stand up for bastards!" monologue from King Lear. Which she performed while locked in her bathroom (for sound and lighting effects - again, this is NOT PORN and there is no nakeditity in it).
5. All Around the Seasons by Barney Saltzberg is indeed very cute. You can see some of the art and read about the book over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. I especially like the part of the post where Saltzberg shares the story of the illustration showing the living room fort, which is based on one he constructed in his own living room, and concludes "It made for interesting dinner conversation when my wife asked me what I had done at work that day. She’s a lawyer, and I could have bet that we had entirely different experiences that day at work." I'll say!
6. I've been spending a fair amount of time this week prepping for the poetry seminar I'll be teaching at the New England SCBWI Conference in May. My workshop is called "Tactics and Techniques to Fix Up Your Free Verse". I have to confess that I am having issues. The problem isn't finding things to say - it's limiting the amount of things I have to say so that I can get it all in in 55 minutes. (I'd hoped for a double session, but that was simply not in the cards.) I shall sort it out, however. I've decided to follow Austen's lead: "I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way", and I'm pretty certain I'll manage something useful. I hope.
2. Not sure I mentioned this before, but poor M may have broken her hand. She took a tumble down some stairs at school on Tuesday. The ER took xrays and said it didn't appear broken, but instructed us to follow up with our pediatrician. Based on the pinpoint sensitivity she has in one place on her non-writing hand, he's pretty certain it's a hairline fracture. Unless she is miraculously pain-free by Monday (which seems unlikely, per both M and the doctor), we'll be heading off to the orthopedist, who will likely cast it. M is mildly excited about this - this injury marked her fifth (yes, you read that correctly) sling, but she's never had an actual cast.
3. I haven't been online nearly as much as usual this week (see #2 for half the reason why). I sure hope I haven't missed anything major. You'll tell me if I did, right? Because you all know I love cheering for friends.
4. Speaking of cheering, have you seen Tessa Does Shakespeare? (I promise you that it's not porn.) My lovely friend Tessa Gratton has decided to memorize Shakespeare soliloquies, then perform them and put them on the interweb. I hope you'll follow that there link I just gave you to check out her "Stand up for bastards!" monologue from King Lear. Which she performed while locked in her bathroom (for sound and lighting effects - again, this is NOT PORN and there is no nakeditity in it).
5. All Around the Seasons by Barney Saltzberg is indeed very cute. You can see some of the art and read about the book over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. I especially like the part of the post where Saltzberg shares the story of the illustration showing the living room fort, which is based on one he constructed in his own living room, and concludes "It made for interesting dinner conversation when my wife asked me what I had done at work that day. She’s a lawyer, and I could have bet that we had entirely different experiences that day at work." I'll say!
6. I've been spending a fair amount of time this week prepping for the poetry seminar I'll be teaching at the New England SCBWI Conference in May. My workshop is called "Tactics and Techniques to Fix Up Your Free Verse". I have to confess that I am having issues. The problem isn't finding things to say - it's limiting the amount of things I have to say so that I can get it all in in 55 minutes. (I'd hoped for a double session, but that was simply not in the cards.) I shall sort it out, however. I've decided to follow Austen's lead: "I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way", and I'm pretty certain I'll manage something useful. I hope.