Thursday, April 30, 2009

Roughing It

After school today, I heard Wynham telling a friend that he was going to sleep under a bridge tonight. While that's not exactly technically true, he's sleeping about as close to under the Golden Gate as you can get with a sleeping bag.

James and a couple of his friends snagged a night at the much-coveted Kirby Cove campground with its million-dollar view. You have to have special passes and secret codes and such stuff just to franchise the locked gate at the top of the hill, and then you drive down a long and treacherous-looking, cliff-clinging gravel road to get to the site.

Normally I'd say "not on a school night!" but how could I deny the kids this adventure? Although now that I hear the rain starting and begin to ponder driving that gravel road at 7am -- but never mind, it's too late to rethink it. That's why they call it roughing it...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Self, Published

April was a busy month: not a lot of time for writing posts for the blog, because I busy editing and publishing the second volume of the print version. The best part of the final result is the cover art by Claire...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Smile and Say "Cheesecake"

Wynham wants cheesecake, Wynham gets cheesecake.
Happy Birthday!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mirth Day

When Claire spontaneously hugged one of her favorite trees after school today, I quickly snapped a picture with my phone; Earth Day celebrations couldn't get any better than that. She's loved this tree ever since the windy day earlier this spring when she saw thousands of petals fluttering in the breeze. "Look, Mama, that tree is snowing!" Now, any flowering tree is referred to as a "snowball tree". Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...