Five Things on a Friday

Nubble Light, Cape Neddick, Maine

1.  Yesterday I did my last full-day school visit for 2011-12.  It was my fifth year in a row at York Middle School (Rules is a core 5th Grade book at York).  It was a pea-soup-fog day!  But after school, I drove out to Nubble Light. I hadn't been there in years and the fog was salty and wet and beautiful.

   2.  It may have been a pea-soup day, but for lunch we had homemade chowder!  Yum!  



3.  At York Beach, the sea roses were starting to bloom.  My yard has big bushes of these rosa rugosas, but mine are barely budded.  These pinks were stunning, cutting through the fog.

4.  My next novel is scheduled to come back to me for revisions in a week or so.  It'll be nice to have a week off now to do family things and clear my head and my desk for the book.  But I'm looking forward to returning to that world and those characters. 

  5.  Thank you to the librarians of Mississippi for putting Hot Rod Hamster on next year's Magnolia Award List!