Welcome, September!

September has come, and I have waved my summer vacation a fond farewell. School #1 started August 20, so I've had a few weeks to get acclimated to teaching there again, but School #2 just started. Since that's the school where I'm teaching three out of my four classes this year, and it's over half an hour from my house, I didn't really feel the end of summer until now.

A recap of the summer:

• Releases:
• Learning to See in Fairytales Slashed, Volume 4 (July 4)
• Dreamer (August 1)
• Submissions Accepted for Publication
• Can Anybody Find Me? (Dec 2012)
• Fire and Lightning (Nov 2012)
• Halloween Trick (Oct 2012)
• Recreation
• Read more books than I can count or remember. When a friend asked for recently read recommendations, my "short list" had over twenty books on it. :)
• Vacation with my in-laws in the lovely wilds of northern Minnesota
• a week at a music festival in the middle of Lake Michigan
• a great seminar on teaching AP English Lit and a boring seminar on the new writing curriculum school #2 is implementing

I also copy edited five manuscripts, made revisions to Can Anybody Find Me?, abraded a cornea, finally gave in and bought some new shorts for the first time since college, wrote some little fairy tales and other short things for fun, and many other even less interesting things. 

Evaluation: Although it was beastly hot and far too short, this summer was a very good one.

Happy September!