The backpack
I’m one of those people who feel guilt about just about everything. If I have to kill a spider, I apologize to it first. When I worked at a place… Read more »
Author Archives: Veronica
Letters of Thanks
I just got thank you letters from the two fifth grade classes I spoke to for Young Author’s Week. Wow, they certainly did make me smile! Fifth graders can be… Read more »
Someone commented on your photo.
I check my email multiple times a day. Often enough that rarely, and I do mean rarely, do I have more than 5 or so unread emails sitting in my… Read more »
DTA reborn!
Now, there wasn’t really anything wrong with Department of Temporal Adjustment’s old cover. Not really. It just fell a little short. So T (yes, the same T of… Read more »
Conversing with fifth graders
They are not all like this, but here are a few of the conversations I’ve had during various question and answer periods at elementary school author visits. These all occurred… Read more »
A knock on the door
Friday I was working upstairs in the office, when I heard a knock on the door. I rushed down the stairs and threw open the door, sure that the person… Read more »
To spell, or not to spell
I interviewed with a woman a few months ago, and was thoroughly amazed by what I learned. It seems that this particular woman, a well educated employee of UW, has… Read more »
The Smell of Bureaucracy
It all started with a phone call, or to be more exact, 4 phone calls. My daughter had lost her phone on the Metro bus, but had been assured by… Read more »
Lost & Found
Saturday my daughter (I’ll call her T) lost her phone on the bus. The same phone that is absolutely necessary to her life, since it is a lifeline to family… Read more »
Holly’s Pet Peeve
I was just watching The Talk. The topic of the day was pet peeves, of which most of us have plenty. Holly just became an instant friend of mine with… Read more »