The semester is heating up despite the super-cold weather, and there's not much time to take a breath. This may be the last post for a while, since my new boss job is pretty draining. But of late, there's been a lot of story-telling going on in our house, and much of it seemed worthy of documentation.
Lucy's reading has been moving ahead at a surprising pace. Every day she's reading and writing more and more words. She and her BFF Ruth together are quite a menace. The other day, they created this protest sign, directed at Ruth's brother, Woody:
Don't you love the positive reinforcement there?
In addition, Lucy has been writing book after book. It's a bit intimidating for other authors who live in the same house. Recently, she's been doing these adorable little accordion fold books; they look like this:
Here's a closer view of the one on birds:
And here's the one on "Hot," which she has targeted at audiences age 2 & up:
And now that she can read and all, apparently she's writing a new book explaining to others how to read:
She's really onto something here. The more kids she can teach to read, the more readers she'll have, and the more books she'll sell! Genius!
In other exciting Lucy-reading news, the other morning, she read me part of my own book (no not the academic one, the children's one). It was a tear-inducing moment, I will confess.
Also, just because I wouldn't want you to hear this from someone else first, I thought I should let you know that I'm soon going to have another brush with a famous person. That person is:
I am not going to type her name because I don't want it to be googled with "Lowell" and end up having my students find my blog. Ahem.
Anyway, you may recall, that a while back, this happened:
And I wrote about it here: http://thischarmingoldhouse.blogspot.com/2012/12/on-meeting-literary-heroes-part-2.html
Also, if you want to see me terrified and excited and living the dream, you can watch me introduce King on the official video of the event here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TkQvdJVbc&list=PLD91T9qx40vrwAuWOj0Rq5ysPBikIkgAo&index=2
Well, it seems we have a reprise, this Wednesday afternoon. I will be introducing our esteemed visitor (photo above). So, as you can imagine, all I can think about now is: WHAT am I going to wear???? Also, I am hoping she will sign my clipboard. In my new job as boss, I have a clip-board-based organization system that pleases me and terrorizes others. There's a wall with project/problem-based clipboards, with appropriate labels. The famous person has her own personally named clipboard. I am looking forward to finishing that event (and retiring that clipboard) so that I can tend to the other, less glamourous, but nontheless pressing clipboards.
Perhaps you would like to see?
There you go. Also, all the clipboards are full now (that was a photo from Day 1). Now you know why my faculty are now calling me "Dread Chair Marshall," and cowering under my clip-board-based reign of terror.
So if I ever emerge from the impending week of celebrity-induced madness here on campus, I'll try to update you on our household's ever-growing web of celebrity connections.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Storytelling and Writing and Celebrity Sighting
Labels:
books,
children's books,
fame,
Lucy,
our famous friends,
reading,
stories,
writing
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