Bob Jonas's Blog, page 5
June 10, 2021
Starting Over—Strangers in a Strange Land
Starting over, next to nothing left, at least in the way of stuff. After 25 years on the road, buying, selling, giving it all away, donating, and even leaving quality crap alongside the road (on Vashon), we've deep sixed more than one or two household's worth of eclectic, priceless heirlooms, and are down to the bare bones. The final cleansing occrued on Vahson, …
October 15, 2019
Day Dreams Gone Bad
The Aida—ofthe German cruise ship line–just docked on this bleary, rainy morning. I guess there are still a few more cruise boats due in over the next few weeks.Today, I might get a slightly different perspective of their arrival. Susan was given a pair of binoculars for her birthday—among other things—and said they were probably more …
October 4, 2019
February 13, 2019
Death’s Door, and More
Michelle Obama cancelled last Friday so we took off to Portland Friday afternoon, just ahead of the snowstorm that jeapordized her visit. Kept saying to Susan, why are we heading into this storm when we could be snugging down, watching the geese fly by? Surprise, surprise, purprise, a b-day party for me, thrown by my honey, friends and family. Excititng stuff …
January 22, 2019
Book Trailers
Click on any cover to find action packed movie trailers for each title
July 18, 2018
Shut Up!!!!!
In the movie Network, Peter Finch eloquently raged: I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. The movie showed people shouting this from rooftops, at their televisions, and everywhere anyone needed to scream for a well-deserved catharsis. That time has come again, in a way unimagined in our darkest nightmares. Speaking …
November 7, 2017
AASL (American Association of School Libraries) Here We Come
After all the years I've attended library conferenes as a school librarian, it's going to be fun to be on the other side of the table, as an author. And to make the conference even better, Susan is being sent by her school to attend as a school librarian. While she goes off in her own direction, …
October 30, 2017
Sorting Myself Out
It is happening: A way to assure Susan that I am not just eating chocolate bon bons and reading movie magazines (like I did on the job). Of course she is thrilled with my daily electronic scribbling but the sporadic royalty payments only seem to stretch as far as a six pack and a few good …
May 15, 2017
Death Brew Launches
After just a few of these events, it becomes extremely clear that if the writing of books is always followed by one of these parteeeeeees, I'm going to have to hurry up. Imagine, being surrounded by family and friends, former colleagues and book groupies, in a fine place of drink, in the school district where it all began …
April 27, 2017
European Tour
First stop: Erlangen, Germany, where we can't wait to see old friends, colleagues, kids, and the entire Franconian International School community. Next stop: The International School of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, to see fabulous old friends Vero and Thierry Mathy. ISB is using ChinAlive as one of their Battle of the Books titles, and I've …
