Virginia Beach Parade of Lights

We took the grandchildren to see the Virginia Beach Parade of Lights again this year. I've decided to make it annual trip for us, it&#...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  I wish each of you a blessed year and I truly thank you for following me this pass year.  For me, 2011 was a stressful year...

The End of Lord Peter Wimsey

I read the Lord Peter Wimsey novels as a boy, spurred by my mother’s fondness for them and by Ian Carmichael’s portrayal of the character on...

Piling on The Seeker

Salon asked some children’s writers about movie adaptations, and a couple had interesting things to say about an uninteresting film, The Se...

Wisest Thing I’ve Read Today

Here’s a taste of economist and New York Times columnist Tyler Cowen ’s remarks about storytelling at something called TEDxMidAtlantic (ev...

Oz on the iPad

One of my gifts this holiday/birthday season was an iPad, and one of my first apps purchased for that iPad was Oz , created by Boluga. The t...

INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY | JACK GERMAIN BETTE CLUTCH

( Bette Clutch - Jack Germain , Skirt - BCBG, Pumps Sam Edelman, Sweater French Connection) I am completely obsessed with over-sized clutche...

Cry Freedom

Over at Boston 1775 , I’ve run an interview with Seamus Heffernan , the creator of a new independent comic called Freedom , set in an altern...

Weekly Robin Holiday Greetings

This weekly Robin shares a few highlights from the holiday story in Batman , #15, dated February-March 1943 but on sale the previous Decemb...

BLACK OUT | A PERFECT LBD

(Dress - Bryce by  sui numeris bride , Heels - Giuseppe Zanotti, Belt - BCBG, Bracelets - J Crew , leuershop.com) First, I would like to con...

Bartimaeus Flattened on the Page

Andrew Donkin shares credit for the script of the Amulet of Samarkand graphic novel with Jonathan Stroud , just as he shared credit for th...

“The lessons they want to hand down”

The Horn Book just sent me editor Roger Sutton’s interview with Daniel Handler on the textual side of Why We Broke Up . I don’t think it’s ...

IN ANTICIPATION OF CELEBRATION...

( Dress - Robert Rodriguez, Clutch - Love Moschino, Heels - Dolce & Gabbana, Ring & Bracelet - Samantha Wills ) I am very excited to...