Last night I received the very sad news about the untimely deaths of Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz in a hit-and-run automobile accident on their way to the Denver airport from ALA. Both librarians at the Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Kate was also vice-president/president-elect of the Association for Library Service to Children  Read more »

How glued to your TV were you all afternoon yesterday? Having three New Yorkers visiting me (and He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog and I being displaced New Yorkers–though not by birth since we’re both Hoosiers), we could not take our eyes off the live coverage of Flight 1549’s landing on the  Read more »

I was shocked to learn yesterday that both Barack Obama and John McCain are left handed, which means whoever wins the upcoming election, our next president will be left handed. This is freaky because Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush senior, and Bill Clinton were all lefties as well (so was Ross Perot, but he  Read more »

Congratulations to Ellen B, Amanda L, Haleigh L, Brittani Y, and Amy L, all winners in last month’s megcabot.com contest! They were just supposed to win copies of Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Moving Day, but because I’m in such a good mood, they each got a copy of Airhead and an American Apparel Airhead  Read more »

There’s so much going on I hardly know where to start. Of course there’s the Miley Cyrus topless photo scandal… …although frankly, if I were Miley, I’d be more freaked out by the photos of her posing with her dad like he’s her high school boyfriend than by her alleged “topless” photos. Seriously, think of  Read more »

I can’t believe it’s a whole new year already! I’m writing this with a heating pad on my stomach and a pillow over that and my laptop on the pillow. I guess I will personally always remember 2007 as The Year That They Took Out My Right Ovary and Burned Off All My Endometriosis, Which  Read more »

Wow, a lot of people wrote after my last blog entry. I’m glad to know I’m not the only person around (and yes, the Key West cops did catch the rapist here) who feels the way I do! Just to let you know, I do watch the news and read the paper. I am not  Read more »

What an insane week! Here's the rundown: –First, I voted. –Then I went to Puerto Rico for a book signing and my publisher's sales conference. –Then Britney filed for divorce while I was on the plane. –Then by the time I got off the plane, the Democratic party had won a majority in both houses  Read more »

Oh, great. So according to the Sunday New York Times, the children of Warren E. Buffett, the celebrated investor and my current crush, are already at work trying to figure out how to manage a gift from their father valued at about $1 billion each that will go to their own charitable foundations. OK, so  Read more »

Check it out you guys! Here's a pic of my new crush! Photo by Stuart Ramson, AP That's him, on the far right. Warren! WARREN BUFFETT!!! OMG I love him so much. Why? Because he's giving $37 billion dollars to The Gates Foundation. I know you've heard of this foundation, but just in case you  Read more »