Posts Tagged ‘East Muskingum Schools’

Hall of Fame, haha!

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Well, I promised long ago that I would post pictures from the East Muskingum School District Hall of Fame Ceremony (whew, that is a mouthful!) when I got them, and I am finally doing that. So here is one from my speech – I think the superintendent is smiling in the background because my speech was very short.

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Next is a shot of the three of us honorees – Denny Elliott, Ginny Bradley, and myself. You can’t see that on the plaque it says that I went to the University of Maine for sociology rather than zoology…

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And last, but not least, is a picture of my groovy cool award clock! Now look closely at the inscription – I haven’t taken Latin since high school, but even I know that it should be “alumna” instead of “alumnus“… Pretty amusing coming from a scholarship dinner award! Maybe they didn’t actually know to whom they were giving the award. They did spell my name right though, so that is something!

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In other news, I still have the cover to do for Miss Tutu’s Star – still waiting for my editor to look at the sketches I sent a month ago. I guess they must not be in a huge hurry! In the meantime, I have a huge order of bears to make for tedde, and I really have to start on ornaments – agh! This year’s designs will be elephants and bears. And I would really like to get back to doing some oil painting… And I am heading back out to Ohio next week to see the Elder P’s. So there you have it, my life in a nutshell!

USA Today!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Whoa, whoa, whoa! In USA Today today, The 12 Days of Springtime was featured as one of four great books for spring! Look for it in the May 14th issue on page D3. They didn’t use a photo of my ugly mug, but the book is there, so hey hey!

I haven’t posted in a while, sorry. The other news is that I was inducted into the East Muskingum School District Alumni Hall of Fame, woot! Haha, I went out to Ohio for the ceremony and it was a night to remember – the chicken was dry, the green beans were overcooked, and the mashed potatoes were from a box (although the gravy was quite good!), but the evening went well, and people seemed to like what I had to say – namely that it is ok if you don’t know what you are going to do with your life and it is ok if you change your mind anyway, and that high school sucks but things will get better. And as I was leaving the podium, one girl told me that she really liked my outfit, so I would say that was a success! I’ll post pictures when/if I get any!