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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": Late Summer
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Friday, August 19, 2011. Things are underway here for Emma's birthday celebration which is really more of a birthmonth celebration - her bd seems to stretch from mid-August to the first week of school. (Around the Fourth of July she begins asking for things, saying, "But it's soooo close to my birthday." ). What did you do this summer that you remember the most? Labels: back to school. Order Light Beneath Ferns.
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": December 2010
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Happy Holidays to Everyone Who Writes to Me and/or Comments or Reads This Blog Silently! These are my three. Happily posed for a quick Christmas shot. We have the official White House portrait, but this was just a quick one that I think captures them more naturally. The boys look just so enthralled with the camera. Chapters 1 - 4 of a paranormal YA (early YA). Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of a YA.
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": January 2011
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Sunday, January 30, 2011. Aligned Stars and the Presence of Dynamite. There has been a whole lot written about "balance" between work and family, and almost all of it is aimed at women. I could never work when my kids were small, particularly the boys. And I'm not talking work as in leaving the house with shaved legs and make up on. I mean work as in planting marigolds. And there's a bigger reason I chose those image...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": September 2011
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Sunday, September 25, 2011. Blog Hopping and Banned Books. I'm blog hopping over to Donna's blog at Bite My Books. To kick off Banned Books Week. Stop over to rant with us! Links to this post. Labels: Banned Book Week 2011. Sunday, September 18, 2011. Isn't that how it works? Through yoga. You have to let things flow more.". Sun block or melanoma? Or get texts back such as, "Mom, don't think I'm dead! I just had no s...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": March 2011
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Tuesday, March 29, 2011. One weird thing I have noticed when I write is how easy it is to come up with names for characters when the story has ripened well enough to be written. Yick, that's an awkward sentence. I would name my diner waitress with the dark roots and the bad manicure Bertha, not the madwoman in the attic. But that's okay; the rest of the novel wasn't too shabby. But I know she's not ready yet. I h...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": July 2011
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Thursday, July 28, 2011. When the Story Just Doesn't. Last night, all my kids were out of the house at the same time. This almost never happens. It felt rare and eerie, the sort of. Things are slightly off here. Sense you get when watching a total eclipe. No plates of snacks, no teens lolling on sofas, no small mountain of fragrantly wet boy-socks on the rug, no Lady Gaga pulsing from Emma's room. No noise. So I took...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": April 2011
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Mom's version of rebirth and renewal. Holidays always seem to sneak up on me. I think it's my resistance to the stores' insistence on mingling bunnies and marshmallow peeps alongside the Valentines cards. My brain screams, That's not real! We're clearly not a yard-obsessed family (seeing as we found a rubber tire in the brush-clogged part of our yard we just started cleaning out), but there i...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": Firsts! (and Mutant Wings)
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Thursday, September 8, 2011. We've had a lot of firsts around here in the past few days. We finally celebrated Emma and Grandma's hurricane-delayed party (they share the same August 25 birthday) and we finally met my oldest brother's new family. And. Eric Spollen, Jing and Chris Spollen, Grandma Bao. And Emma, now officially thirteen, is in her first year of being a teenager. She's my first girl teen, so when she...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": October 2010
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Tuesday, October 19, 2010. I just signed up for the NaNoWriMo. In other exciting news, I am HAPPILY REVISING. Now that might seem like an oxymoron, but I can assure you, it's not. Usually, I approach revision with the same enthusiasm I approach a pile of ironing with, which is to say none. I stop to consider that as an option. This time, I just did what I thought would be better and it worked. You would think I w...
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto": November 2010
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The Former Anne Spollen's Author Blog Is Being Retitled to "Notes from Living Upghetto". Sunday, November 28, 2010. Thanksgiving and Three Heads and A Habit of Gratefulness. Around ten minutes into the ride, Emma asked me how many fingers I could hold from my hairline to my eyebrows. I sort of didn't want to answer, but I did. "Umm, four.". I turned to look at her brothers who were very, very innocently gazing out the window. And here, poor Philip looks like he needs corrective surgery. But it was at som...