On the Road Again
Just a quick post tonight, since I’m traveling. We’re staying at a B and B in a cute little town in New Jersey. This is a trip for pleasure as opposed to work, although I did bring my manuscript with me and am working on revisions during the down time– plus I’ll be breakfasting with my agent Tuesday morning. Aside from that, it’s family time.
We arrived Friday evening after hours of delays which culiminated in a safe and easy flight. My sister, having read my recent Jersey Girl blog post, had the pork roll sandwiches waiting for us. LOL! Yesterday we went to my nephew Chris’s new New Jersey Film School open house. Here I am in front of the green wall, which has a technical name I don’t recall. Here’s one of the little films one of his teen classes made this summer. Back at my sister’s we ate diner take-out food and watched an excellent movie, Innocent Voices.
Today, while my sis and I did church and talked a bunch more, John and my brother, Tom, made a photography trek around Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and they are now tired. Tomorrow, I’m meeting with my sister’s bookclub. The members could read any one of my books for this meeting, so I guess we’ll have a general discussion about my writing. Should be fun!
But I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night when my younger brother, Rob, and his wife, Terri, will be in town (they live in Washington State). We’ll all be together for dinner (yummy pans of lasgana and eggplant parmegiana coming in from a yummy Italian restaurant. I love New Jersey!) and to celebrate both my brothers’ birthdays (Sh. They don’t know.). It’s so rare for all of us to be in one place at the same time. I’ve mentioned this before, but between us we have 3 writers, 3 musicians, 1 theater director, 2 photographers, several actors, and I know I’m leaving something out! Unfortunately, the entomologist can’t make it (she’s also a klezmer musician, so she fits in better than you might think…)
Family’s so important, isn’t it? Mine is talented, easy-going, big on social justice, short on intolerance, calm and quiet (very odd for a mostly Italian family. John, also Italian, thinks we must be fabricating our roots). We are in each other’s corner. How about your family? What are they like?
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We arrived Friday evening after hours of delays which culiminated in a safe and easy flight. My sister, having read my recent Jersey Girl blog post, had the pork roll sandwiches waiting for us. LOL! Yesterday we went to my nephew Chris’s new New Jersey Film School open house. Here I am in front of the green wall, which has a technical name I don’t recall. Here’s one of the little films one of his teen classes made this summer. Back at my sister’s we ate diner take-out food and watched an excellent movie, Innocent Voices.
Today, while my sis and I did church and talked a bunch more, John and my brother, Tom, made a photography trek around Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and they are now tired. Tomorrow, I’m meeting with my sister’s bookclub. The members could read any one of my books for this meeting, so I guess we’ll have a general discussion about my writing. Should be fun!
But I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night when my younger brother, Rob, and his wife, Terri, will be in town (they live in Washington State). We’ll all be together for dinner (yummy pans of lasgana and eggplant parmegiana coming in from a yummy Italian restaurant. I love New Jersey!) and to celebrate both my brothers’ birthdays (Sh. They don’t know.). It’s so rare for all of us to be in one place at the same time. I’ve mentioned this before, but between us we have 3 writers, 3 musicians, 1 theater director, 2 photographers, several actors, and I know I’m leaving something out! Unfortunately, the entomologist can’t make it (she’s also a klezmer musician, so she fits in better than you might think…)
Family’s so important, isn’t it? Mine is talented, easy-going, big on social justice, short on intolerance, calm and quiet (very odd for a mostly Italian family. John, also Italian, thinks we must be fabricating our roots). We are in each other’s corner. How about your family? What are they like?
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Published on September 16, 2009 08:21
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