... You'll find an interview that I participated in over at KSJE radio station with Connie Gotsch of Write On! Four Corners. 

Until Ms. Gotsch I'd never done a formal interview. So if you are kind enough to go listen be forwarned... She was extremely patient with my nervous laughing and total disregard for CONCISION.

Heh. Heh.

My sister Jeannette called me on Thursday to congratulate me. Evidently, she got a call from my sister Lizzie who got a call from her mother-in-law who told her that there was a review of my book published in the April issue of New Mexico magazine. And, according to Jeannette, it was a good one.

The day rolled along. I moderated a workshop. I ate bad food for lunch. I judged in the elementary earth science division of a regional science fair. But somewhere inbetween all that I got a call from my mother telling me the story about New Mexico magazine. 

Before the day was over, I got a text from my sister Liz: You're all legit and sh*t lol

And because I can't find a copy of April's issue in this small town of mine, she also sent this quote from the review: The cast of complex characters makes this coming of age tale engaging and memorable...

Thanks, guys. I can always count on you to make me feel "legit and sh*t."

Thanks to Liz from Milagros Coffeehouse in Alamosa, CO for making me feel so warm and welcome over the weekend. If I could I'd set up shop there every weekend. Milagros is everything a coffeehouse should be and more. There's the amazing coffee. The shelves and shelves of used books. Of course the people. The Wisconsin Cheddar soup is FABULOUS. And how do you not love a place where all the profits go toward feeding the hungry? 

Props to my twelve-year-old genius child. She is creating this work-in-progress website in hopes that it will earn her something very, very expensive this Christmas. To PROVE to me that she is utterly fabulous at whatever she sets her highly evolved mind to, that she's able to be a productive member of society, that she isn't someone COMPLETELY engrossed in social networking and something called poptropica.

If I could afford to, I'd buy her a glass house in Paris... ultimately, that's what she wants.

But at the rate she's going, she'll be able to buy her own fancy abode in the exotic locale of her choosing.

I'm really, really proud of my novel. But the kids?

*choking up*

There aren't words.