Sunday’s post about The Fan raised some questions about whether I’d written about football. Answer: yes! Football plays a role in my Chet and Bernie novel Bark to the Future – especially at the end; also in Behind the Curtain, second in my middle-grade Echo Falls series; and in Reality Check, winner of the YA Edgar. There may be some football in a few other places as well. (Shout out to my two sons, who were both good at football so I saw a lot of it when they were growing up. That’s how most of my “research” happens. Also thanks to WTAFP in yesterday’s comments for explaining my career better than I could. Maybe I should take him on the tour for Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue next summer!)
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Good day to all.
OFA certainly has ardent, faithful, and loyal fans! Plunderers being the best! And I just love their interactions! Also, I love how OFA conducts his research. Is one of those sons the father of the 3 1/2 year old 🦕?
Believe it or don’t, I was a member of the pep squad in high school and actually attended some football games. Perhaps where my ambivilence to observing sports was birthed. I found it a bit boring, plus the night games were uncomfortable when it got cold. I still think I have the bit chenille letter I had to sew on the front of my long gone white top.
I vote for taking WTAFP on tour of any booktalk locations around D.C. or Vermont. And Franklin too.
Happy National CAT day to those so blessed, or cursed as the case may be.
And a Happy Oatmeal day to those that participate. I understand cats will lick anything. (Whereas dogs will eat it and evaluate what it was after the event.) My friend’s cat, Peaches, likes to lick her butter. Also lick whatever she is eating just to see if it is worth a bite.
Today it is off to the flower shop to order Halloween flowers for my Mom, to the pool to exercise and then to the store to start buying some ingredients for the upcoming Christmas baking. I need pasturized egg whites to make marzipan. I’ll also be making another batch of sauce from the tomatoes. One more batch-worth on the bush and after they are ripe, that’s it for the year. Yesterday I make two batches of pesto. That is likely a year’s worth. If I have the energy I might even start the candied orange and lemon peel. OH, and the last of the spices arrive from amazon today so I’ll be mixing up the lebkuchengewürz. I think a double batch as I’m going to try my hand at Speculaas. What doesn’t get done today will get done tomorrow or the rest of the week.