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So

nine months since last post

because

you know, crazy world

password snafu

photo snafu 

but somehow

a book got published:

and it only took me 20 minutesto remember how to incorporate picson this site
but the book is out therebirthed in silent 2020 September
and people have found it(amazing)



and all is well.
I hope the same is truefor you.
xx

As my granddaughter(now 18)began her articlein a local paper recently:"It's official: we are living in Crazytown."
So swiftly did our normal routines changethat this new worldfeelsupside down.Crazytown.
We are hunkered downwearing and making maskswashing our handschecking in on others.We are cleaning closetsand drawers and files--our attempt to create orderin this disordered world.
But what treasures I have found in this cleaning and sorting:saved letters from students and teachersmost poignantmany humorousmost sincerein their love of a bookand its charactersand (as one student said)"the round comfort feel of it."
And I've unearthedsaved photos and drawings:generous giftsof spirit.
Crazytown, yes,but there are somebeautiful thingsinCrazytown.
Beaming you allsafety, healthand bountifulluverino.
xxYour author

(More pics to come. . .)

November 2019
Well.
Long absencebecausenew computerforgot settingscouldn't accessbigga headache
Trying again now
Latest book =SAVING WINSLOW2018
I am trying to postan image of itoff to the right
If it appears =whew
If Moo appears instead =oopsthat was previous book
. . . . . . xxfog of brainxx

Wait.What?My last blog post was in April?
How can that be?
Where did the last seven months go???

Lots of places!


Switzerland in May and June and October.


Maine (hellooooo Elvez)


Ohio (bye, bye beautiful brother)


In Georgia and Kansas and Maine, launching MOO




And everywhere, in the next story
Molto loverino,
xxxx

En route from Zurich to LuganoSwitzerland
high over the Alpsa spring afternoon
ahhhhyou sayahhhh

hiking through the villagedown the stone pathstop at the red bench
ahhhhyou sayahhh
xx

It is a joyous timewhen a few years' worknears its culminationin a beautifully edited and designed book.
Above is the 'official cover reveal' for MOOdue out in September 2016.
I hope you will like it.
xxandmoo
Editor:  Joanna CotlerPublisher: Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins Children's BooksJacket art:  Vincent MoustacheJacket design: Sarah N. Kaufman

Happy New Year!
Apparently December raced on bywithout my pausing to take notecaught up in all that flurryof holidays and peopleand bakingand wrappingand writingand workingwhoooooosh!
Buthelloooo new yearyou fresh and clean new yearso full of space and promise and timehellooooooo!
xx

So much dependsupon
yellow woodsand
a red canoe. . . .

(I intended to post this last month, but the month evaporated. The yellow leaves are now gone, but the red canoe remains.)
xx

Sometimes you think you knowwhere you are in a storybut thena cloud descends

and you're no longer sure:
Is this the right setting?What's down there in that valley?What is going to happen?Why can't I see . . .?
You walk from one roomto the nextYou wash a dish or twoand then

The cloud lifts!It's a miracle.You know where you are.You know where you're going.
At least for the time being . . .
xx

If you continue past the Herman Hesse museum(see previous post)you will come to a stone archthat connects two buildings
a path leads you through the archand down a short slope
you round a curvethe trees partand thenyou seethis:


You can hardly believe your eyes.
You have to sit thereon a red benchand breathe deeply.
Such a world!
xx