Hi everyone,

I hope you enjoyed the weekend. I stayed off the computer and attended mostly to my goo foffing. I think I did rather well. Back to the routine this morning: out of bed at 6:00, bathroom, brush my hair (in the dark, as this picture demonstrates), turn on the coffee, butter and warm half a muffin, and take my seat here. This morning that took six minutes.

Today I’ll spend some time sending follow-up notes to folks in the May 5 event at The Library Center and work on my part of an article that TIM RASINSKI and I are writing for The Robb Review in March. It’s about 40 Poems for 40 Weeks, the book we edited last year for school librarians, teachers, and all other adults who work with children to engender a love for reading.

If there’s any time left, I would still like to think of a new story idea. I’m also thinking over an invitation to speak at a school book fair in a community more than three hours from Springfield by car. One reason it has some appeal is its proximity to Chicopee, Missouri, the hamlet where my mother was born 114 years ago. I would like to go there again.