Last Friday night I went out with a motley crew. No, not some crazy college kids. And no. Not some crazy bachelorette party. Worse. Much much worse. My mother (70), my aunt (62), and my sister (she says she’s 32). All of them, of course, 100% born and raised Cuban Queens. My aunt, who is retired, is …
Okay, so this is Monday’s post and it’s Sunday night. But I have a BIG day ahead of me tomorrow! So here it is!First – let me start by saying that I love Scott Westerfeld. I love his novels, The Last Days and Peeps – naturally, I had to pick up The Uglies! The Uglies …
This is a poem by my friend and writing college, Ian Ghostt. He lives in Miami and is working on a novel which I like to think of as a “very twisted” love story. His images are always provoking and I love that he takes risks – Ian pushes the envelope – making the reader cringe …
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Okay! So technically it’s still Wednesday and I can post and still meet my blog deadline! The reason I am soooo late is because I was taking care of a lot of babies today! Yes! My son who is two, my three nephews who are two, six and eight, and my little cousin twice removed who …
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I picked up Sarah Dessen’s The Truth About Forever not because she is on the New York Time’s Best Seller list, or because she is one of the celebrity judges for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest (ahem…which I am a part of this year and maybe reading my YA manuscript (see My Projects tab …
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Yesterday, while I was browsing, I ran into something that simply needs to be put on The List – ASAP (ooh, ASAP is almost on The List! We need to come up with a new one. How about QTASAP – Quicker Than As Soon As Possible?) Comments? Okay…so here’s my rant. No more Flipping Off …
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I was going through a “phase” where the characters from Will and Grace had become…well…my friends. Not that I don’t have real friends, but I had watched so many reruns of W&G that sometimes I would just pop in the DVD to hear their familiar voice. You understand…right? Who hasn’t seen the classic Will and …
I know I know…this was published in 1989. But I noticed that I had not given a book review to what is certainly one of my favorite books of all time. Here it goes! Look – I will be frank with you. I have never been into Jane Austin – I appreciate what Austin did, …
Teaching is one of those jobs that people certainly do not do for the money. Especially teaching middle grade and high school, where a fun finger painting game just wont cut it. Middle graders/Highs schoolers are…well..young adults. That says it all. They need to be inspired, motivated, challenged intellectually, and more often than not, disciplined. …
My husband is a potter. Not by trade, but by hobby. Pottery is one of those things, I believe, that one has to be born to do. Who the heck wants to sit on a wheel, hours on end, molding clay into a mug, air dry it, to later fire it, then glaze it, then …