Category: Blog

A new game for Thanksgiving: Hide-and-Go-Moo. It’s like Hide-and-Seek, except the person hiding has to moo. Cow mode.

Elaine is having a sleep-over with my imaginary friend Trugo and her imaginary pet unicorn. They’re listening to the Raffi Christmas album.

Frogs don’t tap dance on whales’ heads.

This year is brought to you by the word ADVENTURE. Oh, you wanted to stay home and drink tea? Too bad. ADVENTURE.

Hope is not a canary. Hope is a plastic yellow bird that refuses to die even when the mine is filled with methane and carbon monoxide.

If a panda was really small and trying to hide, it could pretend to be a soccer ball. Save the pandas, stop playing soccer!

Well, I’ve done a lot of writing tonight. None of it was on the stories I planned to work on. I wrote about butterflies and bears instead of squirrels and cats.

Every video confirms it. Otters sound like squeaky toys. I wish I’d known that ten years ago before I’d written two books about otters.

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Research: watching videos of squirrels and looking at pictures of submarines.

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Baking a vegetable casserole from the Redwall Cookbook, randomly in the middle of the night.

Ch. 1 – Dinosaurs
Ch. 2 – Dogs and Cavemen
Ch. 3 – Cats and Pyramids
Ch. 4 – Knights and Dragons
Ch. 5 – Ben Franklin and a Mouse
Ch. 6 – Dancing Hamsters and the Internet

Playing twenty questions with Elaine — the answer turns out to be a Rapunzel cat, which she just made up. Yep, she’s my daughter.

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And now the answer to twenty questions is Dazzle Drop –a magical gumdrop that unicorns eat. Elaine is just like me.