…Friday. Only it isn’t yet. Only, I went to the chiropractor a day early for my appointment, thinking that yesterday was Thursday, and my chiropopper, blissful Zenny fem that she is, just
blithely saw me, leaving me to wake up this morning completely bewildered that it wasn’t yet Friday… Siiiiigh… Can’t tell if this makes me Sleepy or just Dopey…
In my thoroughly half-awake state, I forgot to tell you about some great T-shirts MotherReader has going on that all the smart set will be wearing at conferences this year. I’m SO calling dibs on this one. And isn’t it cool how LittleReader is growing up just like Mom? Awww.
Thanks to Chicken Spaghetti for the heads up on the PEN’s Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee discussion on censorship. I read 
the three essays by the painfully realistic YA author Robert Lipsyte, thoughtful children’s poet and novelist Mary Anne Hoberman and the super creative middle grade author Elizabeth Levy for some prose on writing, censorship, self-censorship, and where to draw the line as gatekeepers of Children’s/YA authors. Elizabeth Levy’s statement, “my greatest fear, far scarier than vampires, is the one that I somehow haven’t been honest,” is reverberating in my head, the pen battling the sword… and will probably provide blog fodder for another day.
Meanwhile, if you’ve never visited kidSpeak, where censorship issues are talked about by kids… you’ve got to. It will make you feel like the world just might be all right, because young people are learning to stand up for their First Amendment rights. Huzzah!
Fun with linguistics… okay, maybe I’m the only one who winces when she hears people say ‘exspresso’… when it’s pronounced and spelled ‘espresso’… (I may also be the only one who thinks linguistics are fun…) Here are more entertaining common errors in English usage.
Have a good weekend… starting… tomorrow.
Sigh