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Very Hungry Caterpillar Day!!!! Donations Needed...

Let's celebrate, because today is Very Hungry Caterpillar Day-the day we mark the 40th anniversary of its publication. And why shouldn't we? Eric Carle's book is so wonderful...

So check out Google. Too cute.

And even better, head to Penquin's website to grab VHC wallpaper and screensavers. Love that.

Speaking of children's books--a member of my town's middle school is working to build a library for underprivileged children in her hometown of Papua, New Guinea. Donations are so needed. I just can't imagine a childhood without books. Every child deserves to be touched by their magic. Want to help out? Because I am...

Send books appropriate for children to:

Aimalu Primary School (Mararamu Village, Umboi Island), c/o Mr. George Lapu, P.O. Box 3410 LAE, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.


Happy first day of Spring, everyone. :)

Let's Celebrate...

Today is National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day!!!

Yes, I know! So go! Be patriotic and eat oatmeal cookies... It's our civic duty, people...

Mind-boggling Yet Completely Useless FYI
March is also:

National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Celery Month
National Flour Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month


Quote of the Day

"The best way to turn on a woman: validate them."-reporter on CNBC Squawk Box.

Hanes vs. Thick-Skin

Sometimes I wish I wrote Christian fiction so I could have queried literary agent Rachelle Gardner. It's just, she's so nice. You know?

Alas, I do not and cannot. *sigh* But I always read her blog, and so should you. Especially her most recent post about thick-skin. They're having a great discussion over there on whether people have it (the ability to tolerate criticism)or not, and how it affects you as a writer.

I have it. Quite literally. A few years ago, a doctor actually bent a scalpel while cutting into my upper back.

Nice. I know.

Anyway, my suspicion is being thick-skinned is way overrated. That I'd probably be a better writer and person if things didn't bounce off me quite so high and with the frequency that they do. Just saying.

Maybe the answer should be thick-skin isn't as important as possessing a good pair of big girl panties. Because it's inevitable (or should be). Things don't always bounce. Sometimes they seep in and they burn. And they make you cry. But the secret is those Hanes. No matter how much you hurt, you hike'em up and you go back out there. You don't let them see how you cried or that it stung. You just learn from it and stay strong and move on.

Maybe. :)