MARGARET DILLOWAY

  • ALA Anaheim 2012

    went to ALA Annual this year and here is some stuff I saw. A guy (or girl) in an inflated Captain Underpants suit. I was too lazy to stand in line for a real pic. My photo on a poster outside. I read from The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns. People were milling…

  • Rock Bottom Remainders at ALA

    This is the fact: I generally have a better time when I am wearing flats, not heels. Heels (the possible exception being those leather-soled ballroom dance heels, which I haven’t broken out for years) force me into being an observer rather than a participant. You should be glad I thought of this last night as…

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  • Father’s Day Mountain Bike Riding

    Father’s Day, 2012. Cadillac said he wanted to go mountain biking. With me. We shopped around for a bike. We have been shopping for a long time. I bought bike shorts, those things with padding in the crotch that remind me of those huge pads they give you after you have a baby, about a…

  • Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury died June 5. I know everyone already knows that, unless you didn’t, and now you do. I can’t remember when I first read Bradbury. I know it had something to do with my brother, who had a vast collection of sci fi and fantasy books. When I wanted something new to read, I’d…

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  • The Day the Earth Stood Still: A Man and a Craft Store

    I just finished the editing/rewriting of my next book. Now it has to go to my agent, who will undoubtedly see items that slipped by me. Anyway, I worked a LOT this week to finish it, because the kids get out of school on Tuesday, and it’s really hard to work when they are at…

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  • Sherlock/Dr. Who Shoes

    We got some white Vans for our 12-year-old over the weekend, and she turned them into a work of art with fabric pens. She’s a huge fan of the new BBC SHERLOCK series and the DR. WHO series, so she simply had to devote one shoe to each. I swear, I think the best thing…

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  • Roses in Entertainment Weekly

    I got a nice surprise yesterday when my EW came in the mail and I saw my book mentioned. Yay! I immediately showed my kids. The two younger ones were gratifyingly excited. Eldest said, “I want proof!” and read it and said, “Cool.”

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  • Morning at Children’s Hospital

    Recently, I asked the kids’ pediatrician for a referral to the cardiologist, so they could get echocardiograms to see if they have noncompaction cardiomyopathy, the genetic heart condition that runs in my family. I am hoping the kids got Cadillac’s heart. Everyone in his family, on both sides, lives into their 90s, as long as…

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  • The Ethics of Mommy Blogging

    I am facing a dilemma. As my kids get older, they do more and more interesting stuff and new issues come up all the time. If I write about these issues, my successes and failures could help out other parents. But should I be writing about my children at all? I just Googled “mommy blogging…

  • Writing Wednesday: Writing Over Your Head

    Today, I saw this quote from John Updike on Caroline Leavitt‘s Facebook page: “If you don’t feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you’re doing probably isn’t very vital. If you don’t feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do…