Yesterday I attended an all-day conference on eBooks for professional development, and left with nine pages of notes and plenty of my own margin-filling thoughts. First a few highlights: 1. eBooks are on the rise, and they’re here to stay: -2009 eBook sales increased 176.6% from ’08. -The eBook format is now included in Bestseller [...]

Joel has always been biased towards the Russians and I wondered if perhaps I should be, too. So glad I read this book… Nobakov: you are pure poet. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the [...]

Another birthday to celebrate- Saturday was the lovely miss ashley’s! We spent the morning at Tuttle’s Orchard picking apples and buying cider and mini pumpkins and trying to resist getting in line for the pony rides. This orchard had everything you would expect and way more… hay maze, hay rack rides, petting zoo, greenhouse, tailgate [...]

“you can make it on your own!” (strong bad reference anyone?)

Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walking blues Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are going to be friends Yes I can tell that we are going to be friends Walk with me Suzy Lee Through the park and by the [...]

An interesting article from the New York Times on what we read and what we remember: The Plot Escapes Me. And to go with it, here’s an “animated poetry” video of Billy Collins’ “Forgetfulness”:

This last weekend, particularly Saturday, was quite full.  First I was on the schedule to run a techzone activity at the library for International Talk Like a Pirate Day (the whole museum was decked out in doo-rags and eye-patches. Even Jack Sparrow was there). Turns out I’m not awesome at coming up with piratey things [...]

The pre-release show was sweet. Margot, you sure know how to rock alternatively. The band played in a small corner of Luna’s records on Broad Ripple. We squeezed ourselves in between rows of records, the band’s speakers, and lots and lots of hipsters. We even met and made small talk with an actual hippie, a photographer [...]

margot and the nuclear so and so’s new album pre-release show tonight!

Tonight I’m resurrecting novel number two.  I’ve been slowly peeling away the layers of things that stood between me and an idea. I went straight to the source. I opened up old files, perhaps a can of worms, and dug right back in, this time seeing it all anew. Perhaps it’s safe to say my [...]