Comments on: Monthly Wrap: How a Book Can Save a Kid

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:17:27 +0000

Despina, I loved hearing your story. All of it – the cinder blocks, the big bed, the dress. And I’ve seen seizures so many times in my life, and never once heard what the experience was like for the person having it. Thanks for this, and I hope others check it out, as well.

By: 5speener0

5speener0 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:31:24 +0000

Susan, my wish is your command. I’ve posted a link to this site on my facebook profile and the logo and a link on my blog, http://alphafemalemind.blogspot.com/, if you’d like to read my story about epilepsy, you can find it on this blog as the latest post. It was written rather quickly, but it’s up, along with pics of me as a young girl and as a teenager. Gotta love those pics, right?

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:45:02 +0000

LOVE your description! And I had no idea about the epilepsy. I hope you’ll tell your story sometime, either here or on your blog. And not too late to participate in Purple Day, which is March 26th!

By: 5speener0

5speener0 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:16:59 +0000

Thanks for this. As a person formerly known as a young girl with epilepsy, I am particularly interested.

Ah, I remember (and tell the story often) the day I TRICKED my stepson Thomas into reading the first Harry Potter book. He absolutely LOVES reading now, always in search of that first wonderful book high! He and I have read all HP books since the first, and it’s one of those things that binds us to one another, along with crossword puzzles and catching up on each other’s lives while we’re cooking in the kitchen. A good friend, food, books–add a glass of wine and some music, and you’ve got something close to the beauty of a magical sunrise on the pebble beach of a small Greek island. Okay, I lived that, I admit, but it was stunningly beautiful, even for the girl of 7 yrs. that I was at the time.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:03:32 +0000

What a wonderful list of books! I can’t even tell you how many times I read THE BFG to my kids.

Here’s a link to Kate Marshall’s MOKES, MINES AND MAYHEMhttp://www.amazon.com/Mokes-Mines-Mayhem-Kate-Marshall/dp/1606933574/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235091801&sr=8-1 Can’t wait to find out what mokes are!

By: eileen_rita

eileen_rita — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:53:27 +0000

Oh how I loved to read when I was younger. I can remember walking home from school one day reading, and a teacher pulled over in her car and scolded me for not watching where I was going. I didn’t get yelled at often…and never for reading – It has haunted me to this day.
My favourites were ‘The BFG’, ‘Charlottes Web’, ‘The Wind and the Willows’, and in a odd-one-out sort of a way ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. I think as a child I read to escape the world i was in, where as now I read to learn more about other people’s worlds.
I just finished reading a lovely book for younger children the other night called ‘Mokes, Mines and Mayhem’. It’s written by a friend of mine, Kate Marshall, and is set in the Australian Outback, which is close to home for me. The story follows the adventures of three young brothers and their family over a Christmas holiday there. What I found I enjoyed, and what I would probably like to seek out in other children’s books now, is that instead of taking my mind to a world of fantasy, it reminded me of my childhood, and the adventures I had. I’ve already leant it to my friends son, because I’m keen to know what kind of reaction he has too it. It’s really interesting to me how an adult mind perceives and interprets a children’s story.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:41:02 +0000

The other day, Mr. Henderson was folding the laundry and listening to a re-broadcast of the Super Bowl. We both listened to the final 5 minutes together, hoping the Steelers would still win. Today, he’s folding clothes, and I hear the football game. I ask him, “Super Bowl again?” He says, “No, but if we win this game, we’re going to the Super Bowl.”

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:50:16 +0000

Very nice interview between The Courier-Journal’s Larry Muhammad and former LitPark guest Jim Tomlinson. It begins with this:

Jim Tomlinson’s new career might be the perfect example of how life’s second acts sometimes fulfill dreams deferred.

After decades as an engineer — designing precision tools for manufacturing and electronic sensors used in auto equipment — Tomlinson quit in 1999 and began writing full-time. Three unpublished novels, short stories and rejection letters by the dozen piled up in his Berea, Ky., home.

Then a funny thing happened. Tomlinson’s debut collection, “Thing Kept, Things Left Behind,” won the prestigious 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award, a prize known to kickstart the career of many a young writer.

Only this literary novice was then 64 years old.

Continues here: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090211/FEATURES/902110575 I hope you have a chance to check it out!

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:25:34 +0000

Fun, twitter-sized interview with LitPark’s webmaster over here: http://www.erinbalser.com/2009/02/12/the-140-interview-terry-bain/

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:54:44 +0000

MORE good news about former LitPark guests: The winner of The Missouri Review’s 2008 Editors’ Prize Contest is Roy Kesey for the story, “Double Fish”!

Here’s the LitPark interview with Kesey: http://litpark.com/2006/09/06/roy-kesey/

And if you missed me waxing his legs in public: http://litpark.com/2007/10/26/weekly-wrap-our-ancestry/