Making the Leap

I posted a link to this on Twitter, but it was so delightful I wanted to share it here too:

Not only is it a scene straight out of a middle-grade novel, but what a perfect metaphor for the courage it takes to do so many things -- to start off, or speak up, or stay still -- and the pleasure and accomplishment of moving through that fear. My goal today:  to be as badass as this fourth-grader.

A Blogiversary!

Today is March 4, and that means it is the seven-years-and-one-month blogiversary of Brooklyn Arden. I will allow these fine gentlemen to express my feelings on the occasion:

Some other things to celebrate:

• Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy was named a Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction by the SCBWI!
• My Plot + Structure Master Class for the Inland Empire SCBWI went well on Saturday, and while my brain felt finely fricasseed afterward, it has now recovered!
• I just ordered a second printing of Second Sight!
• It is Sunday night and I just watched an episode of Sherlock I have never seen in full! (It was "A Study in Pink," and it was delightful.) 

Here's wishing you all many Kool, exclamation-point worthy good things this week.