Oh my gosh! What a wonderful surprise! I just picked up the mail, and there in the midst of it was a big white box, and inside the box were the most beautiful chocolates–actually called “artisanal” chocolates because they are individual works of art–hand-crafted, hand-decorated, and DELICIOUS. There is absolutely nothing like [...]
Sorry. I meant to try to remind myself when it was Friday, but you know how sometimes you lose track of days? I just got back about an hour ago, and this is one of the things I remembered on the plane.
So clearly my nice thing this week was the Kidlitosphere Conference. [...]
It’s after 11:00 here, I’m so so so so so tired, but I wanted to report that as with the Olympics, at the end of the evening here I announced the location for the Second Annual Kidlitosphere Conference: Portland! Hurray, Portland! You lobbied for it, you bribed the judges, you deserve it!
Here’s [...]
I’m supposed to be showering right now (not because anyone told me to, but because, well I have a nose of my own, thank you), but I wanted to grab just a minute to say:
It’s more wonderful than I hoped for. If you think these people all seem smart and funny and clever and [...]
Had dinner with Adrienne of What Adrienne Thinks About That tonight–I know! She’s real! Not just a blog. And what a lovely person she is in every respect.
Anyway, as she was recounting her bad food choices for the past day in Chicago, and I was talking about all of mine [...]
Last April I posted something called “The Case Against Hugging.” I still strongly believe in one of the points I made: that we owe it to children to respect their natural boundaries and not force them to go kiss this person or hug that one just because they’re family or friend and it [...]
Thanks to everyone for your input so that I could finally get everything into one reasonable (I hope) schedule. Obviously next year this conference will have to be spread over two days so we can all get a decent amount of sleep. But for this first one let’s just suck it up and [...]
I’ve gotten a few e-mails now from people wondering what the dress code is for the 1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, which (brace yourselves) is next week already. Am I ready for that? Do I have my discussion schedule worked out, the name tags printed, the who’s who cheat sheet all compiled, all the [...]
With the conference only (yikes!) three and a half weeks away, we have some deadlines looming.
First, if you haven’t already reserved your hotel room, the absolute drop-dead deadline is September 19 if you want any hope of getting the special rate. Be sure to tell them you’re with the Kidlit Conference.
Second, thanks to Herb, [...]
I’ve gotten so many great ideas, and some volunteer moderators to go with them! Thank you!
This is not the final roster, but we’re getting close. Now is the time for all of you who have ideas to send them to me so I can compile our final conference schedule.
Here are some of the [...]