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My Pic Of The Day

My Pic Of The Day
San Francisco Cable Car

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

65 -- Sunny Foggy San Francisco


My mind spins with sights and smells, colors and characters, images from our whirlwind trip to fair San Francisco. Read More...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

64 -- SCBWI Turns Forty: Of Phantoms and Dragons and Phantom Dragons



Yes. The SCBWI has turned forty.
I didn't think... (Click here to read more)


Sunday, July 31, 2011

63--Under the Roman Sun



I sit at my desk listening to summer raindrops...(Click here to read more)


Thursday, July 14, 2011

62 -- Tuscan Holiday Parte Seconda: Siena



This post is dedicated to my dear friend Marilyn Donahue.

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

61 -- Tuscan Holiday



Rilla: Think I'm going to fly.
To Italy.
Todayeeeee, yeah!
Have me a little Tuscan holidayeeeee. Yeah!!

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

grrrr

Is everyone having trouble with their Google accounts or is it just me. I've been asked to sign in about a hundred times, even though I'm already signed in...grrrr.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

60--Out of the Tropics into the Desert




Watch Out! You are now entering the desert...(click here to read more)


Monday, March 21, 2011

59--Food, Fruit, and Flowers Among Friends



Abadiania, Brasil.
An hour and a half from Brasilia...(Read More)

58--On the Road Again! Continent # 6 South America




Brasilia the capital in all (Read More)



Tuesday, December 21, 2010

To All a Dry Christmas!



'Twas the night before...Click here to read more.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

56 - Ole!



If only I could dance like...that!



Sunday, August 29, 2010

55 — Through a Spanish Window or Door



Ah! Spain! The sights, the sounds, the food, the wine.

In June, we spent three glorious weeks traveling through the country, starting out in Madrid, driving through Andalucia...(Read more, click here.)



Wednesday, August 4, 2010

54 -- Here There Be Heroes and Giants and Men Made of Stinky Cheese


WHERE ELSE…

…would you find children’s writers who loom larger than life...Click here to read more


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

53 -- Weaving Wormholes, Making Magic

I spent the last week in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania.
Where? No, the map doesn't know where it is...but the magic does.
The Highlights Whole Novel Workshop for Fantasy, in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

51 -- Writer's Day Block

Yesterday was the SCBWI-LA's Writer's Day and the combined creative talent seated in that one room was enough to give little me writer's block...(Read more here.)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

50 -- Scene in Cambodia (6) Tomb Raiders


Served up by Netflix — Tomb Raider!

Yes, I did actually put this movie into my queue…for a reason.(Click here to read the rest of this post.)

Saturday, February 6, 2010

49 -- Scene in Cambodia (5) Mystical Mountains

Well, February has snuck up on me. It’s that sort of month. (Click here to read more.)

Saturday, January 30, 2010

48 -- Scene in Cambodia (4) Dietary Restrictions

So. I’m on a diet. Invariably, the holiday season has its tradeoffs. A time of reckoning (Click here to read more...)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

47 -- Scene in Cambodia (3) Water World

It has rained here in southern California for five days in a row.
The lawn is a pond creeping across the patio and lapping at our back door.(Click here to read the rest of this post)