Almost done with Venu’s order of a tray and eight coasters. I want to add one more thin flood coat to the tray — if you look at the bottom left, you can see where a layer of resin didn’t make it all the way to the edge, and it’s bugging me. A top coat […]
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Home. Couldn’t sleep at all last night for no good reason, so super tired and yucky travel day, but Kevin greeted me with rice and my favorite curry, which was lovely, and now I’m going to take a bath and go to bed for twelve hours. Okay, probably not twelve hours. But at least eight
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Morningside Park, New York. Was pleased with that first photo — note the kids on the swings. 🙂
Morningside Park, New York. Read More »
Very conveniently, the #kweli24 conference is a 20-minute walk from my sister’s place in Harlem, and to make it even nicer, it’s mostly a walk through Morningside Park. There’s a huge elevation change from one side to the other, so I’ve either been going down a lot of steps (going home to her place in
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Morning crafting with my niece; Savreen and I made boats! (Gian made waffles, also important.)
Scenes from a delicious dinner last night at my sister Mir Mo Ga’s place in Harlem. My brother-in-law, Gian Gandhi, makes excellent cocktails.
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Kweli24 book room, and the books I bought….
Kweli24 book room, and the books I bought…. Read More »
This was a great panel — really nice hearing an author and agent having a frank and open conversation about the process of working together (and going out on submission). (And yes, I bought her book!) Collaborations | Agent & Mid Career Author “From providing thoughtful feedback on drafts, to serving as a steady presence
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Picture of a tired author, conference day 2. I’m really enjoying the Kweli conference — pretty much EVERY presenter has been interesting (kind of unheard of for a conference), and I’ve learned stuff, and they also all seem like people who would be really fun to hang out with. Spending more time in the kid-lit
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I now believe every conference should open with a ten-minute ballet performance. Mia Bermudez, of Ballet Hispanico, performing an adaptation of A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison.
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