Ms Fix-it

Anna can sing Gumdrops song endlessly to calm her younger sister Kaylee adopted by her parents from the other end of the world. The focus of the family is on getting toddler Kaylee to thrive. The book is titled ‘ The Year of the Baby’ in the Chinese fashion of naming a year after Chinese Zodiac signs. While at this, she also has to face being the eldest kid in the house. Not to mention coming up with a hypothesis and testing it for the science fair project. She and her friends get creative in drawing from their life experiences in solving their problems.

I got worried for Anna when she would toss away what seemed like a potential project. Few pages left, how is she going to find the project?

No mean girls.

The illustrator has Chinese letters on a baby’s bib. The simple sketches are likeable.

I havent read the prequel ‘The Year of the Book’.

Books mentiond

Because of Winn Dixie
Dinosaur Alphabet
Little blue and little yellow

Roundoff

Men of letters

Mutatis mutandis

Homo Ludens

Have you ever tried to read letters by writers where most of them seem so hard to relate to. But here is a book of letters, Here and Now, from contemporary writers Paul Aster and Jim Coetzee.
They are in awe of Federer like DFW.
They agree that its hard for new games to emerge.
Deed poll

Paul's wife Lydia's short fiction won Booker
Hotels with typewriters?
Weltanschauung

Essays the magical word

The Task of the Translator by Walter Benjamin
The task of the translator on the nature of art as in Kenyon Review.
Van Gogh bridge in the rain in Hiroshige style.
Rumpus article

View of Delft
on Author
Excerpt
The Memory Palace of Isabella with writeups on museum content.

animals like and unlike humans in drawing

Dogs head as a circle and cone

Once a friend asked me to draw a dog and the final result was close to a wolf which is not too far away from dog.

Getting your animal drawings right

In this book, I liked the section on livestock where the author uses geometric building blocks to draw animals better. I bought it for a friend.
The book goes through many kinds of drawing. For example, painting the street lights and so on. It works at the general level than the details.

Drawing your problem and solution

My husband showed me the speed painter's painting on Anderson show, when he said the painting was done in a minute and half, I couldnt see what it was until he rearranged it upside down.
And drawing upside down is what the author Betty Edwards calls drawing from the right side of the brain in her previous book.
Drawing analogs
Beaux Gestes
Erasing out what you see in light on a graphite paper
how to draw geometric shapes
Exercise
workshop video

Barbara Walters on the late show with Letterman said that while interviewig, she found courage.

Writing childrens books for dummies cheat sheet

Inside news

Hotels book to 110%

When you book a hotel through external website, you are not the hotel's priority.
Ever been shortchaged on service at a restaurant where you availed groupon discount.

Related book:

Ruminated

Who wouldnt be proud of that?

Studies in sleep

We have many pillow cases in our house

new

We have many old clothes

may be we can make some soft pillows

But husband says they need to be shred

before stuffing

Do you watch Letterman?

Zeitgeber

Long ago we used to sleep twice a night

When I stayed up beyond bed time studying, my father would ask me to wake up in the morning and study the remaining. I would list all I had to study and ask him to wake me up. In the morning, miraculously I didnt have to study any of the list.
artifiicial light and breast cancer
Multiple master bedrooms- trend

scienceseeker

Food poetry

Butter

Description poems:
The fish
A display of mackerel

The Fish by Billy Collins

Upcycling gifts

Danny Seo

Plastic spray

spray adhesive

ASU history in pictures

Its hard to imagine Tempe with only farmlands and few buildings even with the photographs. Cars were parked around Memorial Union.