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Tag Archives: los angeles
Road Trip Memories
This week, YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday asks the question, What’s the most dramatic road trip you’ve ever been on? What immediately pops into my mind might not have been a dramatic road trip, but it left wonderful, indelible memories. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Old Memories, Travel
Tagged 1964 world's fair, awakening, brooklyn, california, carlsbad caverns, florida, los angeles, mark twain, revolution, road trip, TANKBORN, texas, Tom Sawyer
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#LA12SCBWI – Day 3
A day that started great, including a killer chocolate mousse for lunch dessert, then got a little weird on the way home (an accident that trapped me and hundreds of other motorists for an hour on Highway 99). The conference … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – Day 2
My impressions of the second day of the annual SCBWI summer conference. Rough notes from five of the keynotes/workshops I attended. Karen Cushman talked about how writing rules often contradict one another, so we should either ignore rules or write … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – Day 1
Here are my impressions of the first day of the SCBWI annual summer conference. Kind of quick and dirty. First, the Arthur Levine keynote in which he discussed timelessness this way: When a story captures a moment of intimacy between … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – The Prelude
About an hour ago, my son and I arrived at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza for the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) big annual summer conference. The room is quite nice and very spacious. I hadn’t been … Continue reading
SCBWILA11 – Day 0
Or is that Day -1? Not much of import to report. On Twitter, I’ve seen much exclaiming over luminaries at the faculty dinner, but since I’m not faculty and not yet a luminary, I’ve only met the regular folk so … Continue reading
Rent-a-Cat
I’m heading down to L.A. tomorrow to attend the international summer conference of SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators). Although I’ve been to three regionals since I joined the organization last October, this is my first time attending … Continue reading
Posted in Cats Horses and Other Pets, The Writing Life
Tagged cat, cats, conference, hotel, kitties, kitty, los angeles, SCBWI
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Mystery of Spring
When I lived in Los Angeles, I never really experienced spring. It was generally cool in winter and warm in summer, but there wasn’t that explosion of newness in April like there is here in Northern California. In L.A., there … Continue reading
Posted in Introduction, Traditions
Tagged garden, gnome, los angeles, northern california, redbud, seasons, spring, tulips, wallflower, wisteria
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