Hi, everyone!  Check out Edith's interview with JUMPING OFF SWINGS author Jo Knowles at http://www.edithcohn.com.  I've read LESSONS OF A DEAD GIRL which I found so compelling I didn't put it down until I finished it.  The story stayed with me for days so I am looking forward to reading her new book.

Happy reading!!

It's not a bad addiction but an addiction just the same.  I just don't know what it is about being in a book store and office supply store.  Most of time, I will walk out of these stores with a new book, new notebook, pens or pencils.  Today, my daughter wanted to check something out at the local Barnes and Noble.  So I drove her there and I ( Read more... )

I just wanted to share some of my fond memories from the SCBWI Summer Conference!

Here are some pictures from the Blue Moon Ball . . . .


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The big SCBWI Summer Conference is over.  My brain feels a little tender right now from all the wonderful workshops and moving keynote speeches.  I was going to post my notes on the workshops I attended but I now find it unnecessary.  SCBWI had a fantastic group of people blogging directly from the conference and you can find it all on Read more... )

WOW.  What a day it has been!  I am bone tired and it is just the first day!  Nothing serious, though.  Just the side effect of a whole day of excitement, great talks and a glass of wine ( Read more... )

Yayy!  It's finally here and I have so much to do to get ready.  This year we are going on a road trip to New Mexico where we plan to stay in seven cities in seven days.  We will be traveling in a loop starting from the southwestern portion of the state to its northwestern portion.  The drive may sound tough but the cities are not that far from ( Read more... )

When I think of the color blue, I think of blue skies, the deep blue ocean and the iridescent blue of a hummingbird's wing.  This color also makes me think of the SCBWI Summer Conference!!!  The theme color this year is blue (the theme of the poolside party is blue moon).  I can't believe it's only three and half weeks away.  I don't have an outfit ( Read more... )

 .   .  .  I was a completely different person.  It was my turn to work a Saturday at the lab today.  Usually when I work on Saturday, I go home feeling really, I mean REALLY lazy and beg to go out to dinner instead of preparing it myself.  I would usually veg the rest of the night either in front of my computer or the tv or both.  But today was ( Read more... )

I've always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.  Ever since I first held my first born in my arms, all I wanted to do was stay home and take care of him.  I hated the idea of leaving him with a stranger.  But I had to because my income was needed.  My mother-in-law reassured me that he would be fine.  And he did turn  out fine and so did my daughter ( Read more... )

Creativity is a place one travels to.  A world where words come together to tell stories, to become jewels of poetry.  It is also a place that guides your hands to shape wood, clay, paint and pencil on paper, yarn and fabric into something special and beautiful.  I can't claim to have been a writer all my life, but what I have been is a lover of ( Read more... )