As you may have noticed, I’ve not asked any controversial questions recently. I know. What is up with you these days, Elissa? Well, I’ve been hashing away major life quandaries in my recent novel, and the exhaustion this causes has led me to more relaxing and mind-not-required things on my off hours. Today, I’ve pulled […]
A Year of Mornings
I’m enjoying an unusual book called A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart. It’s a simple idea, yet so very clever…and endearing. I’m contemplating doing this with someone. It would even be a spectacular project for kids learning how to use a camera. The two authors are friends. Mav lives in Portland, Maine, Stephanie in […]
Sound of Music
For a while now, I’ve been singing “Doe a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun…” to Liliana, and she’s learned enough of the phrases to go around singing them. She’s always run and danced and twirled while doing so, and I’ve never understood why, because she’s never seen the Sound of […]
Seasons
As I mentioned before, I’ve been sequestered away up north for 10 days, putting the final touches on a first draft of the second novel. Driving home on Friday was lovely. Where I was, the tree leaves were just poking their tiny brown-budded heads out. As I traveled south, the growth on the sides of […]
Holding Up a Mirror to Ourselves
Can I just say that Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games deals with so much more than a futuristic nation’s sadistic starvation game in which 24 youths are chosen from twelve districts (one girl, one boy) to compete in the Capitol–until death…on TV? Sounds gruesome, doesn’t it? It is. But, sadly, it’s an excellent portrayal of […]