I'll be reading Growing Up with Tamales for story time at Blue Willow Bookshop, in Houston, on Thursday morning, May 15. Tell everyone you know with kids in the Houston area. How do you find and support local indie book stores like Blue Willow? By going to Booksense.
On Saturday, May 17, I'll be in Dallas, reading and signing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, for the 13th Dallas Children’s Book Fair & Literary Festival.
On June 22, here in Houston, I'm going to do a poetry workshop. It's free and open to the public, y'all, and they're having one every Sunday in June, taught by local poets I love and respect. So come on down.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
status update1. I cut off my hair. It's shorter than heck. Chin length with long bangs. I'm glad. I'm getting too old for long hair, I think. My boyfriend doesn't think so, but he doesn't have to be a 36-year-old woman with three kids, a conservative job, and razored-to-hell long hair. So I cut it. I took in a picture of Number 6 from Battlestar Galactica, and they cut my hair, and now I look like a mom. But I am a mom, so I'm good. (I might go solid blonde next, though. Screw it -- it's only hair, right?)
2. Toby and Starbuck are inseparable now, just like I knew they eventually would be. I would tell y'all cute stories about them now, but Toby just got on my lap and he smells like vomit, so I'm not in the mood, all of a sudden. I swear: Toby is a dog, not a cat. He always needs a bath.
3. Finally got my signed copy of Rob's book, so I'm reading it in quick bursts while I ride in the car and etc. It's very good. It inspires at least one laugh or one lip tremble per page. He had a nice turn-out at his Houston reading, and he cracked us up, despite the not-quite-hilarious subject. Congratulations, Rob!
4. Uh... seems like I had at least five list items to tell y'all...
Oh, I'm getting ready to take a vacation. From my day job and my kids, for a week, coinciding with Spring Break. Guess what I'm gonna do on my vacation? Work my freaking ass off. I have a novel to finish.
5. Uh... Send me your email address if you want my publisher to send you a coupon for 20% my Growing Up with Tamales kids' book. If you're already on the mailing list, I've taken the liberty of putting you on that list. :) But they promised not to spam y'all with other stuff, so don't be sad.
That's it. More later. Busy, busy day tomorrow. Busy, busy life. 9:03 PM #
Comments:
Isn't it freeing to get rid of some hair when you've had it long for a while? I got my hair cut about a month and a half ago in to a bob just below chin-length, and I am loving it. I'm tempted to go all the way back to super-short hair that can never, ever blow in your face and get stuck to your lip gloss, but my double chin (a feature I am blessed with whenever the rest of my body does not look like a stick insect) doesn't work so well with a pixie cut.Glad you're liking your new look. Don't go blonde, though. It's never as much fun as people think, what with the upkeep.
# posted by
Katherine : 1:50 PM
I went to your Flicker link to see a picture, is that the new haircut in the picture with the author?
I concur with Katherine, its freeing to have your hair cut, its fun and good for spring/summer!! When you decide in a few months to grow it all back out for your upcoming wedding updo we are right there with you...Nothing is more fun that a hair cut and then growing it all out to do it all over again!!!
I looked for cat pictures, are ther new smellyTOby ones?
About the blond idea: go with highlights until you are blond enough, I'm *all* blond and it IS dedicated upkeep.
# posted by
Pixielyn : 8:26 AM
I know what you mean. I'm pushing 40 and I have two little ones so I've been telling people that I'm growing my hair for the last time. I got it cut Monday but they just trimmed off the dead ends and gave me some long layers. After 40 my hair is staying fairly short.
Glad to hear Toby & Starbuck are doing good!
# posted by
ShoeGirl : 1:43 PM
Cute hair!
I, too, once said "It's just hair, right?" and then my hair person (who has since gone out of business, might I add, so it's not just ME) managed to dye it black instead of dark brown -- a splotchy black, in fact -- and then when I asked if it could be lightened up, proceeded to bleach the ever-loving hell out of it and it all fell out. I'm not kidding. Okay, well it didn't fall out, but it was so incredibly damaged that it all broke off, fairly close to the scalp. It took YEARS to recover, and it's never been the same since.
Moral of the story, for me anyway, was to always ask LOTS of questions about the advisability of putting dark over light, trying to lighten dark, etc. Because if I'd wanted to fuck up my hair that bad, I'd have done it myself. As laid back as I thought I was about my hair, it was a surprisingly traumatic experience.
Anyway, I can't wait to dig into Rob's book...
# posted by
jam : 2:08 PM
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