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Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:22:41 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Blog Hopping and Banned Books:
Anne said, "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!"
Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:15:16 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Rushing:
Anne said, "I have always wanted to be one of those Zen-like relaxed people who nod and listen and never worry. This past summer, a woman I met was talking to me about yoga. I figured if I tried yoga, I would become more Zen-like and calm. Right? Isn't that how..." more
Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:48:11 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Firsts! (and Mutant Wings):
Anne said, "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 we I..." more
Sunday, August 28, 2011 2:17:54 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Thirteen:
Anne said, "We've been having a lot of "weather events" as the news calls them. I secretly love weather events because it usually means we lose power and my kids have to unplug and actually talk to me for more than a few minutes. I like when they have to sit..." more
Friday, August 19, 2011 2:45:10 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Late Summer:
Anne said, "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..." more
Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:16:57 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Postcard Blog:
Anne said, "Here's what I've been thinking about lately: gators, swamps, lizardy things that scamper everywhere, and hillbilly hand fishin'.That's right - in the middle of August, my best friend from college and I decided to celebrate three decades of..." more
Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:57:38 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Living Plots:
Anne said, "One of the main concepts, if not the main concept, I try to get across to my literature students is that the stories we read do not exist outside of our experiences; they ARE our experiences. Literature, I say all the time, is a mirror. They nod and..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:54:09 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled When the Story Just Doesn't:
Anne said, "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,..." more
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:19:31 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Deleting the Obvious:
Anne said, "I was reading a middle grade book last night, and what struck me about the author was the way she used very simple language to create surprise in her writing. Her style struck me because the last few middle grades I read used a lot of..." more
Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:14:25 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Summer!:
Anne said, "I'm back. .. and I didn't actually finish my novel, but I got the first third of it down, at least the draft of that first third. Actually, I'm sort of saying it's the first third because it makes me feel cool and organized and all sorts of in..." more
Monday, May 9, 2011 2:40:41 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled My Own Personal NaNo:
Anne said, "Nano is six months away, or six months past, depending on your politics. But I'll be back in about a month. It's the end of school and because I may not be entirely stable, I am attempting to finish a YA that I've been tinkering with for..." more
Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:22:58 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled The Royal Wedding and Heads Shaped Like Potatoes:
Anne said, "I know this is yesterday's news, but I'm psychotically busy most of the time, so I just got around to watching it last night. Well, nine minutes of it because my kids are all home on a Sunday night, and they were not quite so much into the..." more
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:21:55 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Happy Easter!:
Anne said, "Mom's version of rebirth and renewal ~Teenage version ~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..." more
Friday, April 8, 2011 11:27:44 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Time:
Anne said, " I remember studying that picture in my elementary school library instead of watching the film on the Dewey Decimal system. I also remember feeling sort of scared by it, but only in the way you can be scared in an elementary school..." more
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:20:28 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Naming:
Anne said, "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. Anyway, if I am struggling with names, chances are, I don't..." more
Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:19:39 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Interview with A Middle Grade Reader:
Anne said, "Today I had the double pleasure of picking up the laundry from Emma's room and helping her edit a rough draft of her life story. Just in case I was developing any kind of ego, I discovered that she loves me slightly more than her Aeropostale clothes..." more
Friday, March 4, 2011 11:19:02 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Revision Revisited, Then Revisited Again:
Anne said, "I have been MIA from the Internet as of late due to three things: story revision, my crazy life, and story revision.Currently, I loathe revision more than I ever have.For Christmas, I got a bright and shiny new laptop. For a time, I felt really cool..." more
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:10:14 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Snowlog and Potluck Stuff:
Anne said, "While I was looking for pictures of the last snowstorm, I finally found the picture of our Christmas mantle that I thought I had never taken.Everyone piled stuff there without any real pattern, sort of a designer's potluck. It has nothing to do..." more
Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:55:20 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Aligned Stars and the Presence of Dynamite:
Anne said, "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..." more
Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:23:05 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled MG/YA Brains: The Divide:
Anne said, "Whenever my house seems dusty and cluttered, which is a lot, I put on some real estate show and look at the adults only kind of living with porcelain objects on tables and alien things like crystal and wine decanters. It's an entirely different..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:35:38 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Spending New Year's Eve Alone:
Anne said, "With hubster working on New Year's Eve and nobody local available, I decided, for the first time, ever, to spend New Year's Eve alone. I probably could have imposed myself on people who vaguely mentioned plans, but after the ho ho ho-ness of..." more
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:28:45 AM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Happy Holidays!!!!:
Anne said, "Happy Holidays to Everyone Who Writes to Me and/or Comments or Reads This Blog Silently! These are my three demons kids who begrudgingly happily posed for a quick Christmas shot. We have the official White House portrait, but this was just a..." more
Monday, December 20, 2010 12:14:31 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled The Season of Epiphany:
Anne said, " Baby Cat Touching the Moon This is a kind of blurry picture of BabyCat who finally, finally got onto the highest window in the house to bat at the moon with her paw. Of course, that's not really the moon. It's the reflection of a hallway..." more
Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:13:20 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Thanksgiving and Three Heads and A Habit of Gratefulness:
Anne said, "I always have this idea that Thanksgiving is going to be one of those calm holidays where we bond as a normal family with a long car ride, and I don't know, stories of how wonderful our lives are or how wonderful something is. It seems that..." more
Friday, October 7, 2011 7:41:08 PM
Anne Spollen wrote a blog post titled Blogcation:
Anne said, "Hey fellow bloggers and blog readers --I haven't been around much on the Internet lately. Actually, I haven't been around much at all. My mom was in the hospital for surgery and you know how crazy it gets when you have someone in the hospital. You..." more