Spent the weekend at the first annual IN Youth Literacy Conference. Attended informative presentations on planning a book club for boys and how to prepare an author visit. And!! Meeting authors! Thanks, Jackie for sending me the photos, I didn’t even remember my phone!!
with Nikki Grimes, most recent book: Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Brian Selznick author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Elsa Marston, author of Figs and Fate and Santa Claus in Bagdad.

Good to see you in the picture. I love attending interactions with authors. I’m lucky I live in a big city where I get the opportunity to do so.
Wow, I love your new hairstyle and glasses. You look great.
I just posted some pics from our trip to Meinong yesterday to see the flowers. I kept thinking back to last year’s visit with you and our friends. This year there were a few new varieties of flowers: bright red/maroon cosmos and lavendar plants. Take care!