April 4, 2008
I flew back from Minneapolis last Friday night after a three-hour delay where the reasons varied from "weather" to "air traffic in Newark." At one point I wanted to go over to the gate agent and say, "Pick a story and stick to it and we just might believe you!" It was an evening where I once again gave silent thanks for my laptop's Verizon air card as I sat on the floor of the airport sending emails and IMing with the office. By the time I got home and unpacked, I was more than wide awake having passed the "tired" needle hours ago. I now was on what mothers with small children refer to as "my second wind." Thus it was time to pluck a book from the stash that I had picked up at the conference and relax by reading.
Outside of school assignments, do you talk about books with your friends?
April 4, 2008, 190 voters
April 2008
Last night I attended an author event at the Clinton Book Shop, which is located near my home in New Jersey, where Elizabeth Noble was reading from and talking about her new book, Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Many of you know Elizabeth from her previous books The Reading Group, The Friendship Test and Alphabet Weekends. One of my favorite moments of the evening came when a woman in the audience mentioned that she and her husband were going to be empty nesters in the near future, and they were embarking on their own version of the adventures based on the alphabet adventures in Alphabet Weekends.
