by DianneSalerni | Nov 26, 2010 | Dorians Parlor, Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
I’ve been practicing all week for this weekend’s reading at Dorian’s Parlor. Actually, you could say I started practicing last weekend, when my husband and I learned how to dress me up in my costume. Yes, it took two of us. All those movies you’ve seen where a servant...
by DianneSalerni | Nov 24, 2010 | reading, teaching
Report cards and parent conferences are over, and it’s time for Thanksgiving break! I feel like I’ve worked hard enough for it! Exhaustion makes me cranky and maybe a little fanciful. My over-exerted neurons are firing off crazy ideas and strange little...
by DianneSalerni | Nov 22, 2010 | steampunk, teaching, writing
I don’t have much for you today, folks. A week of being buried under report cards was followed by a week of parent-teacher conferences – including one 12-hour work day – and I still have more conferences to do tonight. I’m feeling squashed flat – kind of like our old...
by DianneSalerni | Nov 15, 2010 | research
I love it when I’m researching a project and I discover a fascinating side story that has nothing to do with my WIP, yet pulls me off track for hours, just reading about it. While reading about Tesla’s experiments on Long Island at Wardenclyffe Tower, I came across a...
by DianneSalerni | Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week, students were off for a teacher in-service day, and I attended a day full of meetings and presentations. A day full of meetings will get me thinking – especially in report card season when I have a ton of work to do, and I can’t do any of it because I’m in...
