Planning to run a little Valentine’s / Galentine’s Day flash sale tomorrow (Thursday) of sweets, hand-roasted Sri Lankan curry powder, and Feast of Serendib cookbooks on sale ($30 for hardcover, $15 for paperbacks, $10 off, such a deal!) I am feeling a desire to immerse myself in sweetness. If you’d like to be tagged into […]
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So, I survived a critique of my SF novel, again. Someday I’m going to write a novel that people really love, right? One where I bring it into workshop and everyone says, “This is perfect, ship it!” That would be nice. It’s hard not to feel disheartened after two solid hours of critique. (Maybe I
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When I went out to take the Christmas lights off the roof, Kavi asked if she could come out too — I admit, I hesitated for a minute about letting her. But she’s taller than I am now, at age 12, so I said okay, but be careful. I do want to encourage her to
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In other news, Kavi really wants to read one of my books. Eep. I gave her Perennial, because even though there’s some cancer stuff in there, there’s no explicit sex, I think. I think it’s reasonably 12-year-old appropriate? It’s hard to remember, but I’m pretty sure it just ends with a kiss. (For those new
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Yes, I left my laptop in my office on Monday. Whew. Coming in just now on Wed to teach and confirmed. I *thought* so, but wasn’t positive I hadn’t left it in a classroom… Just one in a series of discombobulations this week. Sigh. I *also* apparently scanned in the reading for the students whose
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Per my last post, I’ve just spent the past four hours on family healthcare, between making many doctor / dentist / orthodontist / therapist appointments, and attending Anand’s triennial IEP reassessment meeting at the school. If I didn’t have a job that gave me the flexibility to take four hours out of the middle of
This is all true, but I also have to think that part of why so many schools ask for doctors’ notes is because their funding is dependent on having kids actually attending. So yes, this is classist and racist, but the problem starts further back, with the public school funding system also being classist and
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We might be sliding a little Feast book launch party (with treats!) into the SLF’s March Deep Dish. 🙂 #feastbooklaunch #serendibkitchen #slf https://www.facebook.com/events/111255013657409/
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It was so lovely outside yesterday (high of almost 60) that I abandoned my work for three hours and walked the kids up to the Green line, trained over to the Garfield Park Conservatory, got ice cream, and wandered around. Kevin had too much paperwork and had to stay home on a beautiful day bent
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I was craving flowers last week, after too many January days without sun, but we’re at the point where the flowers will be showing up outside soon. So I don’t really want to buy fresh flowers anymore, so while I was at Target, I picked up some silk / dried flowers and a vase —
