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The Week In (P)review

I've gotten into the dangerous habit on Monday mornings of looking ahead to the week and anticipating what wonderful things might happen. Of course, there is a chance by Friday, that nothing wonderful will have happened, but so far my luck is holding out quite nicely.

This morning I had no problems guessing what wonderful things would happen during the week, since a couple of them are already scheduled. On Wednesday, I'm going to the New Jersey Library Association Book Award Luncheon, where Life

Two Pieces Of Good News (Neither Involving A Kitten)

Bonjour mes amis in Missouri.

Life As We Knew It is the first winner of the Truman Readers Award, selected by students sixth through eighth grade in Missouri. Notice how the link doesn't take you to some official announcement place. That's because I can't find an official announcement place. Actually, the place Google took me to last night was a blog by a librarian who didn't like LAWKI. So I waited until today to make the official (by me at least) announcement, by way of a librarian who is at le

Scooter Is A Healthy Kitten

I took Scooter to the vet today, to make sure he was a healthy kitten, and indeed he is. He weighs 1 pound 4 ounces, has a normal temperature, and may be less than 8 weeks old, which would help explain his meowing whenever I'm not right by his side. Although I think he's meowing less (or else it's turning into white noise, I've gotten so accustomed to it).

I promised Scooter if he did something sufficiently cute, I'd post a video along with this report. I put one of his toys out for him, b

Scooter In The Kitchen

I promise I'm not going to post endless look at Scooter photos and videos. But this one, which I took about half an hour ago, shows what a little meower he is.

The ticking sound in the background is the toaster oven.

Scooter is now climbing on my back and purring. He's really a sweetheart, but a very noisy one!



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I Named Him Scooter

I have a kitten on my lap. After an acquaintanceship of a mere two hours, Scooter understands how important it is to sleep on my lap.
As you can see, he's black and white and has a beard. It makes him look slightly Amish.
Thus far, he's expressed no interest in food or kitty litter, but he sure does love telephone wires. And my lap.
He knows how to purr. And to kvetch, which he did non-stop on the trip home. So maybe he isn't Amish. Maybe he's Chasidic.
If he were wearing a stovepipe hat, h

Extra Credit

I love movies, old and new, and one difference I've noticed between old and new is the length of the credits.

It used to be the credits were short and sweet: Produced, Directed, Written, and Starring Orson Welles.

Nowadays the credits run forever, and include all kinds of jobs and responsibilities I never associated with movies (second assistant greensperson and the suchlike).

So while I continue to wait for a kitten and a rewrite, I thought I'd give the credits for my upcoming production of This

Lady In Waiting

I had a wonderful realization about an hour ago, that spring still has at least two months left, which means I have at least two months before I need to think of spring cleaning as summer cleaning.

My plan, really truly, is to begin cleaning practically the minute I finish this blog entry. I have a date to have lunch with my friend Hilarie on Friday, so I'm using that as a deadline. Of course, I've used quite a few other dates and obligations as deadlines, and none of them seem to have taken.
I m

Tips For Young Writers

I've gotten a few emails lately asking me for tips for young writers, and since I'm generally asked for those kinds of tips when I make school visits, I thought I would devote a blog entry to them. Feel free to share my thoughts with any young writers you know in your school, at your library, or in your family.

Read A Lot: There's no easier way of absorbing writing skills than by reading. Don't limit your reading to novels. I used to read plays all the time in junior high and high school, and lea

It's Back To Redecorating

I'm home.It was a wonderful vacation. I won't describe the drive home from the airport except to say if you ever have a choice between driving through a hailstorm or not driving through a hailstorm, I strongly recommend the not option. Now that I'm home and can't adopt a kitten (I called both local humane societies approximately the minute I got home and neither have any kittens right now), I've returned to redecorating the den. What I should be doing is spring cleaning and putting all the book

My Guess Is Kim, Asada, Rochette

Today is my. last day at Worlds, with the women's final this afternoon. I'm flying home tomorrow morning so I'll be skipping the exhibitions.





I've had an absolutely wonderful time, and I see no reason to think today won't be equally great. In a couple of hours, my cousin Fran is going to pick me up. We're going to a museum with an exhibit of movie costumes, plus lunch, plus the Neon Museum. Then she'll drop me off in time for the skating. Janet is taking a half day bus tour of LA, and Renee is me