Brief Blog Notes Today

I am in the middle of a truckload of school visits (YAY!) this week, which means MORNINGS BOO (it’s like I’m being tortured for my art!  or, you know, tortured in order to talk about my "art", so OK, I guess it’s my own fault really), which means I have to wake up in like six hours, SO: a short blog this week!

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A Gruesome Garden Mystery

I found the WEIRDEST THING in my garden this weekend!

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Can you see it?  Warning: Close-ups ahead.  This is actually RATHER DISTURBING.

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Gleeful Anticipation

Hi hi hi!  And a particular hello to any Glen Urquhart School students who might be stopping by the blog today — yay!  I got to visit this thoroughly fabulous school on Monday and talk to lots of brilliant readers who had LOTS of terrific questions.  I hope you guys had as much fun as I did! 

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Splendid Questions from Brilliant Readers (yes, another post about writing! OMG!) :-)

Hi all!

All right, who ordered the blisteringly hot early summer?  What is up with this craziness?  My mom tells me it was A HUNDRED AND NINE DEGREES in New Jersey today, according to her thermostat.  That is INSANE.  I am barely done complaining about winter!  I need a couple of months where I can cheerfully wear my hooded sweatshirts all the time; this direct switch from fluffy coat to tank top overnight is TOO WEIRD.

Sigh.  I hope President Obama fixes global warming soon!  🙂

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How’s About I Talk About Writing Instead

Sooo, it turns out making a website is COMPLICATED.  I mean, at least for those of us who have no idea what we’re doing.  :-)  If it could just be lots of words, I’d be fine.  I’ve got all the WORDS ready to go.  But apparently it also has to be PRETTY and USER-FRIENDLY, so you guys can find all those words.  Siiiiiiiiiigh.  I have no idea how to make things pretty.  That is why I am a writer and not a cover designer.  But I am paying someone else to make it pretty, and THAT will be done by next week.  Or else you get a not-pretty w

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Head Full of Nonsense

Ruh-roh.  Did I promise a longer, better blog this week?  I did, didn’t I?  But…!  I’ve been very busy building a shiny new Pet Trouble website for you!  Very important!  Shiny and new!  It’s not quite ready yet, but hopefully I can unveil it next week…and hopefully you’ll like it!  I’m pretty excited about it, and so is Sunshine, since it’s fairly unabashedly All About Her.  ;-)  Makes sense to me!

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Top-Secret Mission Revealed!

Hi lovely people!

I’m sorry for disappearing!  And I’m sorry this week’s blog will be short, too; I’m sitting in a hotel room in California, mere hours away from jumping on a plane, so I won’t be able to ramble at length.

But!  Now I can tell you what my top-secret mission to California was about!  Ready?  Here goes:

I flew out here…to be on JEOPARDY!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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