cindy pon
a little sweet, a little sour

Category Archives: celebrate

TGIFBM morris and indie love!

we despise mondays!! =D
this is the reason i decided to feature my
free books giveaway on monday, to try and
bring some cheer to this day.
today, i have a very special giveaway.
three books that were on the morris shortlist
for 2010. the morris award is given to excellent
young adult debuts, and i’ve had the pleasure of
meeting the authors [...]

tgifbm!

*today, as the bubs helped their daddy search
for “treasures” with his metal detector. 8)
i’ve been tweet-bragging about our sunshine
and high 70’s temps and getting grouchy and
threatening replies from all over. =p what can
i say, i’m a southern cali girl through and through.
i’ll gladly trade “seasons” for constantly temperate
weather. and proximity to the beach. i don’t [...]

how could it possibly be 2010?

i was watching the season 2 finale of The
Tudors last night, and feeling really very
anxious about it all. anne boleyn was beheaded
and altho i’ve read about this multiple times, it’s
quite another thing to see it acted out. there’s
something to be said about visuals. she was
executed in 1536 and the 500th anniversary
date will be in 2036. [...]

happy 6th birthday sweet pea!

*summer picnic in the back garden. sweet pea
around seven months here.
my sweet pea is six years old today!
i sent her to school with some brownie bites
and mini chocolate chip cookies (purchased)
and she got to open her pressies this morning.
she chose both, one a sort of bejeweled sticker
by numbers and another paper beading bracelets
or some such. [...]

the bread bar lunch date

you can tell how busy i am by the lack
of food and vanity cam fotos. ha! i’m busy!!
i’m basically done with the first draft of the sequel
but there’s a lot of revising i need to tackle.
my favorite part, yes! but percolating is always
required. i definitely prefer to see writing as some
mystical magical process than one [...]