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February 06, 2008
Where are the Paparazzi When You Need Them?
Arrgh! Another event where I completely forgot my camera. Actually, the camera was in my purse -- I simply forgot to actually use the darn thing. If I had, I would've been able to snap a photo of Cheryl McKeon, Events Coordinator for Third Place Books, and all round sweetheart. I could also have snapped Deanna Meyerhoff, Random House book rep and proud mom of Levi who is in kindergarten at Olympic View Elementary, where I visited today.
Even though the 125+ 4th and 5th graders had to sit on the cold, hard cafeteria floor, they were a terrific audience, thanks again to wonderful preparation. This group laughed even harder at my 8th grade picture than they did at my 4th grade photo (a person could begin to get a complex!) but we had a wonderful conversation. I didn't have time to call on everyone who had an idea for me about how the two articles I'd seen in the May 2, 1918 Wolf Point Herald -- one about a man named Elmer Ren being arrested for failing to register for the draft, and one about his son breaking his arm -- might be connected, but you could tell the creativity was a-bubbling.
What could be better than such a terrific school visit? A terrific school visit where a dear friend from 6th grade shows up for moral support! So thanks to Stephanie Patterson Bauer for coming out to cheer me on. . .and thanks to Steph, too, for not telling the kids that my 6th grade photo is even goofier than my 4th or 8th grade photos!
The morning ended with the principal -- who is moving to Belgrade at the end of the year -- asking if I'd be open to an international visit (yes, yes!) and a promise from Cheryl to loan me her ARC of the new Leif Enger book.
What a morning!
Posted by kirby at February 6, 2008 08:50 PM