Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Cookin’ with teens
My friend Carol has more energy than most people. She’s written several books, about a million newspaper and magazine stories, AND she’s flown off to all parts of the world to make full-length, incredible documentaries. Plus, she volunteers in the school system and runs the Fairfield Writers Workshop where she teaches three classes a week. […]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
When naming your own children isn’t enough…
“One of the best things about being a novelist,” said my friend Beth the other day, “must be that you get to use up all those names you couldn’t give to your kids. Or your dogs and cats.”
She’s right. Picking a name for a character is even more exciting than picking our child’s name, mainly because […]
13 Comments » - Posted in procrastination, writing by sandi
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Blindsided by a Diaper: the musical
Do you remember when you first found out you were going to be a parent, and how suddenly the whole world seemed to have advice to throw at you? Did you have people saying, “Get ready for your life to suck” and warning you that you would never sleep again?
And did it seem to you […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Events, kids by sandi
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
No one believes me when I tell this story…
On Friday, I came home to find my cell phone bill in the mailbox…and it was double the amount it usually is.
And just when we had decided to stop our wild, spendthrifty ways, too. We have had three months now of trying to be soooo careful–radical things like eating at home ALL THE TIME, canceling subscriptions we can […]
9 Comments » - Posted in kids, real life by sandi
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The craziness of April
I know. I know. I’ve been a failure as a blogger lately. It’s not even because the New York Times, bless their hearts, has discovered that being a blogger is hazardous to your health and written this story about the dangers of it .I couldn’t bring myself to read the full article since I am very […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Meta, dog, fiction writing by sandi
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Come to a writing conference!
[ April 5, 2008; 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. ] My writer friends, Alice Mattison, Leslie Connor, and I are giving an all-day writing conference together, and I couldn’t be more excited. If you’re anywhere near Fairfield, Connecticut on April 5, and you want to get a chance to talk about writing all day long…please come!
Here’s the notice about it that the organizer, Carol Dannhauser, […]