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Not Your Typical Travel Video

July 20, 2011 Life

My daughter Hayley went to Europe earlier this month with her friend Meaghan and Meaghan’s mother. She had a blast, and most of her souvenirs were in the form of pictures and videos. She definitely put her camera to good use!
Here’s what she’s done with some of the clips she captured on her camera while [...]

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C is for Catch-up: Daughter, Early Rising and Fun (and that takes care of D, E & F)

April 8, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

If you take a peek at the latest posts by those participating in the A to Z Challenge, you’ll see a lot of “F” posts today. As I mentioned, yes, I am woefully behind.
But Joe gave me some great advice yesterday – he suggested doing a series of small posts to get right back in [...]

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Living with a Teenaged Filmmaker

August 1, 2010 Life

We have conversations like this one all the time …
Me: I noticed your green eyeliner in the bathroom. We should probably get you a new one, because this one doesn’t have a cap.
Daughter: That’s all right. I’m not using it.
Me: Good.
Daughter: It’s only for my videos.
Me: Oh. Well, we should get you a new one [...]

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Some Thursday Fun: Star Wars on the Subway

July 15, 2010 Twitter Files

I found this video from Improv Everywhere via Meg Cabot’s Twitter feed.  According to their site, Improv Everywhere “causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.”  Isn’t that a great mission statement?
I’m still smiling – hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I would have loved to have been on that subway [...]

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Fantasy Road Trip: Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle Trilogy

August 20, 2009 Books and Reading

My daughter Hayley and her friends recently made a video for Random House’s Fantasy Road Trip video contest:
If you could go on a fantasy road trip with a character (or characters!) from your favorite series, where would you go? What would you do along the way? How would you travel? Create a video and show [...]

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Chinese Dragon Emperor, Part 2 (Or, Our Summer Vacation Video)

July 27, 2009 Life

Several of you have mentioned you would like to see more of our summer vacation photos (well, okay, two people vaguely said something about this in passing). We took 100s of photos while on holidays, most of which feature much the same elements: sand, surf and blue skies. So I thought it would be far [...]

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What’s Up Sunday – June 14

June 14, 2009 Books and Reading

I normally post this as “What’s Up Saturday”, but yesterday kind of flew by really quickly, especially since I was behind on the big giveaways post.
Deadline Alley
I’m heading into Deadline Alley over the next ten days – I have five deadlines to lay to rest and I’d like to get everything finished by next Wednesday. [...]

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My Daughter Directs: A Short Film Inspired by Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

June 10, 2009 Books and Reading

Last semester my daughter, who was fourteen at the time, read Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, by Shyam Selvadurai, for her high school English class. She’s not really much of a reader, but she thought Swimming in the Monsoon Sea was a wonderful book: “It’s tragic and sad, yet beautiful. It makes you really think. [...]

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Audiobooks: Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Series, read by Lorelei King

December 12, 2008 Books and Reading

I quite like serendipity, so I was happy to learn last night that there’s a new Stephanie Plum YouTube video out – Stephanie Plum’s 12 Days of Christmas. I’ll be putting the video at the end of this post, but where does the serendipity come into play, you might be asking? It’s serendipitous (what a [...]

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