The Conference May Have Killed Me, But It Was SO Fun!

The SCBWI National Conference was so, so, so, so, so fun, even though it may have killed me. Every muscle in my brain got a workout. Smiling muscles too. Lots of smiling. Once I get my pics together I’ll post some. Some things I learned from the conference: –Bruce Coville is quite a dancer as …

Thoreau and My Quest for New Shoes

When Barrett and I started sorting through our things to move to Portland from Madison, I thought after we moved that I would start to live a Thoreau-like existence of simplicity. Sure, we were moving to the city, not the country, but what with all of the trees around, what difference would that tiny detail …

SCBWI-WI Spring Luncheon Last Saturday

Featured Sarah Cloots from Greenwillow, a schmancy country club with lots of big windows (there was even hand lotion in the bathroom), and gigantic delicious salads. Everyone and everything was super fun and fabulous as usual. The directions, however, were not super fab. As a matter of fact, they lead us out into the middle …

Writers Group Weekend with the Fabulous Gretchen Hirsch

A whole entire month has flown by since my writers group’s spring editor retreat. It was brilliant and thrilling and everything a retreat weekend should be, and yet… I haven’t blogged about it. Why, you might ask? If it was so brilliant and thrilling and so on WHY haven’t you blogged about it? Everyone wants …