by DianneSalerni | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog Fest, teaching, testing, Twitter
WAH! A week from tomorrow, the 2010-2011 school year starts for me. The kids have another week off, but teachers return next Tuesday. Here’s how I feel about it:Yup. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not the kids and it’s not teaching that I dread. It’s being forcibly...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 13, 2010 | PAYA, Pennsylvania
The first annual PAYA Book Festival is only a week away! I am excited to have a small part in this event, taking place on Saturday, August 21 at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester, PA.I’ll be one of the authors present, signing books which will be...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 11, 2010 | Disney
Last week, my family took a unique and little-known excursion at Disney Epcot’s Living Seas Aquarium. The Aqua Seas Tour is a behind-the-scenes tour of the Living Seas facility, culminating in a surface swim inside the aquarium!The tour behind the scenes was cool. It...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
We came pretty close to having a CNN-worthy incident on our Florida-bound plane last week.But let me back up and say that thanks to my husband and his “don’t go with the herd” mentality, we had a pretty smooth arrival at the US Air terminal at Philadelphia and passed...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 6, 2010 | writing
I was recently part of a (heated) online discussion about dialogue tags. I am going to leave out all names and even the name of the discussion forum, but it boils down to this:Writer A asked Writer B to give feedback on her work. Writer B’s feedback suggested that...
