Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Bon voyage: I’m officially on a virtual blog tour
It’s not even officially May first yet (seven more minutes to go!), and already my family is perhaps getting a little sick of me talking about how I’m “on tour.” They are very tolerant people for the most part, but I’m not sure they’re really GETTING IT that I am not officially here, I […]
1 Comment » - Posted in books, virtual blog tour, writing by sandi
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
It’s a whole new world
Stephanie came home from college for 24 hours because she was sick. This is one of the advantages of living only a trainride from home–you can get a sore throat, a sinus headache, a stomach ache and a bump on your tongue, and you can come home for a good night’s sleep and a fried […]
2 Comments » - Posted in humor, kids, real life, writing by sandi
Friday, April 27th, 2007
An ordinary trip to the dental hygienist, the Marquis de Sade
This morning started with a thunderstorm at 5:15 a.m., the kind that sits on top of the house for a while, lighting up the whole place and then crashing against the windows and scaring the dog right out of his wits. There was no further thought of sleep.
And then at 9:30 I had a dentist appointment.
You can hardly […]
4 Comments » - Posted in real life by sandi
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Extreme Home Make-over
My friend Mary Caruso is always out helping everybody else. One day when I was at the very tense deadline of my last book, so crazed with typing that my arms were barely functional, my doorbell rang, and when I went to answer it, there was a covered dish with a chicken cutlet, a huge […]
2 Comments » - Posted in real life by sandi
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Dogs and wagging tails
Just when it seemed we didn’t have enough procrastination possibilities, now scientists have come up with a whole new area of tests we need to take time out to administer. We need to study our dogs’ tail wags.
I know. It’s too much.But today the New York Times New York Times reported that there is […]
8 Comments » - Posted in dog, humor, procrastination, real life by sandi
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
I think it’s finally spring
I know it’s spring because that yellow stuff that you see in the background is the forsythia that usually blooms in early April, but is just now getting around to it. Today, in fact. Yesterday the whole back yard looked like a crop of sticks growing out of mud–but today there’s a cloudy mass […]
1 Comment » - Posted in books, weather by sandi
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Where I’ve been lately
How long since you’ve seen somebody who is fifteen whole minutes old?
This is Miles, who is kicking back as he celebrates his first-quarter hour of life in the world–and Allie, his mother, who is just amazed by him. If you’ve ever had a baby, you know just what she is thinking: So this is who has […]
10 Comments » - Posted in kids, real life by sandi
Friday, April 13th, 2007
Writing in the library
My husband calls me an Itinerant Fiction Writer. He doesn’t really understand why it’s so hard for me to write at home, where I have a desk, a couch, nice lighting, good music, and a Writing Dog who is always happy to listen to passages.
I can’t explain it. Some days it is possible to write […]
4 Comments » - Posted in books, writing by sandi
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
I’m going on a virtual book tour
I am packing my bags to go on a virtual book tour.
I have been on book tours before, the bricks-and-mortar kind–where you go to a bookstore and stand behind a podium and wait for people to come and sit in the metal folding chairs. You are praying that people will come. An icy drop of […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Events, books, writing by sandi
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Swimming the Atlantic Ocean
They are having a great time over at google…when they’re not chasing down their pet snakes, that is.
If you’re planning a trip to Paris, you might try running Google maps, at
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=google.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl, and then typing in your destinations:
New York, NY to Paris, France.
This is what you get for step 23:
Of course, some people are arguing that […]