It's a New year

 Now, if only I can remember to write 2022 on my checks when I pay my bills.

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Looking ahead to a bright New Year - full of possibilities

Happy New Year!

My friend and library coworker and all-around great Young Adult Librarian, Kelly Jomidad, created this picture to celebrate the New Year.  Don't cha just Love it?

Happy New Year and other stuff:

May 2013 be an improvement over 2012 for you and yours.


Things of interest.

Try not to use these words in the coming year -- they've been officially banished by Lake Superior State University and I agree and say, "good riddance."

Remember the Kodak Camera?   (a blog post)
This company enabled ordinary people to save memories, one special shot at a time.  Now the company is gone.  Kodak Cameras are gone. Film for cameras?  either gone or going to be gone soon.    And I"m not convinced that digital cameras are an improvement.  After all -- when was the last time you leafed through every single snapshot?  I bet there are loads of pictures you'll never look at again and soon the technology will improve and you'll not be able to access these treasured shots you took so many of.

Check out this retrospective of the picture books published during 2012, especially the art, over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, written by Julie Danielson.  (First time I've seen her full name.  Mostly I see her referred to as Jules.)

Wow.  There's a new writing term out there named after one of the marvelous faculty advisors (they're not called professors) at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Writing for Children and Young Adults. " The difficulty of the act of looking at the story from the outside to consider radical changes from early drafts is what I have dubbed the “Bechard Factor.”"  Check out this interview with author Trent Reedy by editor Cheryl Klein over on her blog, Brooklyn Arden.

Hoppy New Year! 2012

2012,
Ready or not
here we come!

Happy New Year -- 2011

My writer friend, Mary Ann Dames, asked me to be a guest blogger on her Reading, Writing, and Recipes blog in December.

Being so close to the end of the year, I chose to write about New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and why the heck we celebrate this. Feel free to click on over to her blog and check it out.

Meanwhile, I hope your 2010 was a good one for you and that you look forward to an even better 2011.
-wendieO

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!


Woke up today after an ice storm -- Ice coated tree branches glittering in the early morning sunshine. It all will melt soon, leaving us with the usual winter bare brown branches. Already I'm looking forward to spring.

The 10-year-old went to a friend's New Year's Eve party. She wasn't happy when we arrived early to take her home. But I wanted to get her home before the roads got too icy. We played Othello and then she made friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss until midnight.

She was disappointed with the crystal ball in Times Square.
"I thought you said it was going to drop!"
Hmmm.
It did go down the pole and then was hidden behind the numbers 2010 -- on TOP of the building. I guess she took the expression literally and thought it was going to drop onto the people below. Eeuuu.

Come to think of it, before they had that huge crystal ball (circa 2yK?), I seem to remember that there was a smaller ball that dropped along the side of the building. Maybe not down to street level, but still. Anybody else remember that?

Plans for the New Year?
I plan to do more writing and to send more ms. out.
How about you? -wendie O

Happy New Year

It's 20 minutes until 2009.
The 9 year old has a friend sleeping over. (Her parents are attending a New Year's Party, so it seemed simpler for us to invite her to stay here. Now we have to go organize their noisemakers to celebrate the new year.

See you next year!
-wendie O