Here’s a link to a picture of the Rainbow. Here’s more about the event from the same Blog (the Neverwear Blog. If you look at the first picture here, of people listening in a tent, I am visible sitting on the grass in front of the chairs. I’m in marroon to the left of a…
I went to the Mall today for the National Book Festival. It was great fun. Chatted with friends. Saw a number of prestigious writers including Salman Rushdie and Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman always gets a lot more fans waiting for signatures than any other author who attends. Even though his finger was fractured, he signed…
During Juss’s first few weeks in Kindergarten, I asked him about the names of other children in his class. He told me: "One of the kids name is Underdog’s Secret Identity." I said: "Shoeshine?" Juss: "Yes." Today, I went to Back To School Night. When I saw the list of kids names, I burst out laughing. Sure enough, one child was…
Today, I picked up Juss at the bus. As we are walking home he askes, "Mommy, can I ask you something?" "Sure," I say. I stop walking, leaned over and waited, listening. I listened and listened and listened. He didn’t say anything. Finally, I said, "Yes?" To which Juss replied, "I haven’t thought of…
The Cherubim has a book that he can use to communicate. It was made by his god father’s mom and sister as part of a college project. It has a card that says: "I want" and pictures of stuff. He likes to get the pictures out when he wants something and then, he’ll say what…
Wonder of wonders…it happened! Today I got the news. My book was no longer to be referred to as "the latest version." It was now to be referred to as "the manuscript." It was going into production!!! Woo hoo! (I tried to post Chapter One, but LJ says it’s too long. Trying to find another way to do…
Recently, I heard something I thought was quite interesting. Someone was talking about the idea that artists desire to “Speak truth to power.” (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn writing in spite of the Communist Regime in which he lived was given as an example of this.) The speaker then went on to say that modern American artists are…
When Orville was three, someone lent him 73 episodes of Pokemon, which he kept until he was 8. (Incidentally, as of this birthday, we’ve managed to replace those episodes. He now has them all again.) In Pokemon, the premise is that on his 10th birthday, a child goes to chose his first Pokemon and begins…
The Great Pokemon Journey Birthday Party, which I have been planning since last September when Orville turned nine, was a great success. Here are a few pictures. Like all Pokemon Journeys taken by ten year olds, this one started with each child choosing his or her starting Pokemon. Each tissue paper ball contained a plushy Pokemon.…
If so, here is your chance: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/09/anteater-needs-knife-and-ive-got-mine.html