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Friday, January 9, 2015 12:08:38 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled January 1, 2016:
June said, "Looking forward, looking back is the theme of my 2015 New Year's Resolutions. I am really not one for making promises for the coming year at the beginning of January. However, I am an inveterate list maker and adhere firmly to the tenet that if it..." more
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:57:06 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled A Sunday in June...:
June said, "In less than a month, my son will be graduating Stanford University. I don't think Costco sells enough Kleenex to carry me through the day. I cry at graduations of people I don't even know. Since Adam was a freshman, I've watched the ceremonies on..." more
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:43:23 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled An Odd Bird - INTJ:
June said, "When I took the Myers-Briggs personality test, I turned out to be an odd bird, which didn't surprise me at all. Only 0.8 percent of women in the US have my personality type. I found throughout my life, some people don't quite know how to take me. I..." more
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:36:58 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Slaughtered View:
June said, "This view sings to my heart. Every time I return from a trip, the sight of the distant Santa Monica mountains and the lush lined Westlake Boulevard means I'm home. I will cherish this photo I took yesterday because within a few days all of the trees..." more
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:06:45 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Beyond Gigantic!:
June said, "I am not musical which is why I was lured into Stanford professor Tina Seelig's online class on musical creativity. I do not even have a voice decent enough to entertain myself in the shower. Creating music as well as playing an instrument is so off..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 12:04:28 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Room with a View:
June said, "One of the wonders of remodeling my house was discovering something that was there all along. When I look out my window, I am reminded of the Good Witch Glinda in The Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy, "You've always had the power to go back to Kansas."..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 12:04:28 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled 50 Years Ago Today...:
June said, "That Friday afternoon on November 22,1963 still has a clarity that no other day of my three years at Walter S. Boardman Junior High can conjure. I was sitting in Mr. Cortes' Social Studies class when the intercom phone on the wall buzzed. He..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 12:04:28 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled In a minute...:
June said, "I am in awe of this Budweiser commercial. In one minute, it tells two stories and touches my heart. This ad does everything a picture book aspires to do in less than 300 words and sixteen pages. Like a good story, you want to see it over and..." more
Saturday, September 7, 2013 8:57:27 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Ten Years Later...:
June said, "When B IS FOR BULLDOZER was finally published in 2003, I was so happy to see it in print that all I could do was stare in wonder at the book in my hands. It was a seedling when my son was a toddler who was so obsessed with construction that he would..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 6:53:26 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Back and Blogging:
June said, "It has been way too long since I last blogged and my only somewhat valid excuse is that I moved out of my home in January, gutted it to the studs and am now getting resettled in my "brand new" old house. This is something I feared and postponed way..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 6:53:26 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Where have all the S's gone?:
June said, "In honor of New York Fashion Week, I need to address fashion's current curse which does not involve hemlines, leather sleeves or peek-a-boo holes in the wrong places. I am dismayed by the death of the plural. I don't exactly know when this..." more
Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:42:38 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Beyond the Guns:
June said, "The horror of yesterday's events in Newtown, Connecticut cuts through me to the core. That was the exact sort of class where I could be reading my books to a bunch of wide eyed five year olds, full of wonder about the world. It is the sort of place..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 7:56:55 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Don't Look Back:
June said, "NaNoWriMo is a few days away. I have participated before but found myself in a muddle of words halfway through and never finished the story I started, stalled with the mid book blues. I just read a wonderful essay by Steven Johnson with the same..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 7:56:55 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Earth Star:
June said, "This morning I came across a beautiful oddity in a patch of soil where I’ve planted begonias and await the bloom of ranunculus to brighten a winter day in Southern California. Tucked in between two plants, I noticed what looked like a simple..." more
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:05:28 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Plumber's Tale:
June said, "A few weeks ago when my computer died, the purchase of a new one as well as the latest version of Word, provided me with the opportunity to revisit abandoned manuscripts. With fresh eyes, many of them didn't look too bad. I wondered why I had given..." more
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:13:24 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Storytime on THE GOODNIGHT TRAIN:
June said, "All aboard! Enjoy Brad Mendelson's wonderful reading of THE GOODNIGHT TRAIN. "
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:54:50 PM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Not a Crime:
June said, "I just had a good little kick in the pants. I sat down to read and finish STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin Kleon. It was just what I needed on a day like today when I was questioning a crazy new idea I have for a book. It made me remember why I..." more
Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:30:27 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Colbert Meets Sendak - Part Deux:
June said, "The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cGrim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak Pt. 2www.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive"
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:30:07 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Colbert Meets Sendak - Part I:
June said, "The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cGrim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak Pt. 1www.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive"
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:41:39 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Bye Bye Twenty Eleven:
June said, "As I toss the days of the past year up like confetti, certain times and events land with sparkling clarity. Waking up to the vista of Lake Louise. The calving of the Edith Clavell glacier. My hands hurting from applause at the end of The Book of..." more
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:41:39 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Pruning and A Cuddle Muffin:
June said, "In spite of the false summer that leaves an errant bloom amid dying leaves, January is the time to prune roses in Southern California. I have always been tentative about slashing the throny branches to the bone, leaving a gray skeleton to sit in..." more
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:41:39 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Guns and Doughnuts:
June said, "A tweet led me to the seed of this entry, a quote entitled READ ALOUD by George V. Higgins:"You can get what you need to write (as opposed to what you need to make a big nuisance of yourself at cocktail parties) by shutting yourself in a room by..." more
Saturday, October 15, 2011 11:03:19 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled The Slow Hunch:
June said, "Before I read Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, I considered my slowness to move forward with any project was a flaw of my contemplative nature. The family joke is that I get everything done -..." more
Saturday, August 22, 2015 7:00:43 AM
June Sobel wrote a blog post titled Bedtime Stories for Young Brains:
June said, "This wonderful photo was sent to me by father from Atlanta proving THE GOODNIGHT TRAIN actually works! Today's NY Times has an excellent article about the power of early reading aloud: http://nyti.ms/1PhCqGD"