Collateral Bloggage

Well, those of you who regularly read my stuff must have expected this day:  I’ve been published.  In The Hillsboro Library News.  I know.  Totally.  I’ll pardon you as you stagger back in wonder.

Published!

I get bonus points for having a sentence fragment with borderline grammar published. How’d this happen?  Well, it’s about the Hillsboro Library’s Summer Reading Program.  Basically, you fill out a little sheet of paper with the Author and Title of a book you finish, then submit a short review of it (there are four lines on the 3″x3″ paper for the review).  The library actually called me to get permission to use my reviews.  I told them to use whatever they wanted.

When I told my wife they’d published my review, she was expecting something longer than a sentence fragment.  I guess I hadn’t adequately described the size of the work…

I make a New Year’s Resolution basically every year to submit something for publication.  Does this count?

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Congrats to the Tampa Bay Rays.  Now they get to take on the Phillies in the World Series.  I’m pulling for the Phils, but it’s hard not to root for a team that beat out the Yanks and Red Sox.  I’m really just hoping for a seven game series.

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Happy Birthday to The Fair Elaine.  You can head over to her blog and extend fond wishes if you’d like.  She’s now as old as I am, at least for the next 27 days.  But who’s counting?