Posted Oct 23 2011 in author, Chocolate Sunday, Miscellany, Patty Blount, YA
Last weekend, I was in Connecticut, visiting my mom, who is ill. Since she’s not all that mobile, she enjoys watching hour after hour of Food Network or other cable shows, where top chefs compete against each other. On one show, chefs competing for the top prize were judged not just by how their dishes […]
Read More...Posted Oct 20 2011 in book club, Book Hungry, chocolate, Compelling Stories, dessert, fiction, Patty Blount, romance, sex, What I'm Reading
This month, Book Hungry reviewed my pick, a contemporary romance called Sweet As Sin, written by Inez Kelley. I’d first read (and posted a review of) this book last winter. I love this story so much, I conned the rest of my Book Hungry sisters into making it this month’s pick AND invited Ms. Kelley to […]
Read More...Posted Oct 13 2011 in author, Compelling Stories, Patty Blount, teens
My blog is depressing me. Lately, the posts I’ve been writing have a common theme – sad and alarming teen trends like bullying, sexting, sexual molestation, and homelessness. Coming from someone whose novel is about sexting gone bad, this is really saying something. So… How about we focus on the positive? Being a teen today […]
Read More...Posted Oct 11 2011 in author, facebook, Patty Blount, social networking, YA
Facebook – to the fury of its millions of users – recently introduced a new user interface. Outcry was so loud, it actually made mainstream news. This got me thinking. What is it about Facebook that keeps us coming back? We could use Google+ or Twitter or other networks, but we keep coming back to […]
Read More...Posted Oct 9 2011 in author, Chocolate Sunday, Miscellany, Patty Blount, YA
My 16 year-old is ill this weekend and sad about it. We’d planned to visit Manhattan tomorrow. So, to cheer him up, I am combing my recipes for an easy chocolate dessert that I can eat, too, without undoing my diet success to date. I settled on this recipe – a Christmas favorite. They’re called […]
Read More...Posted Oct 7 2011 in author, homeless, Patty Blount, Sachem, teens
Author Bill Cameron posted this link to a story about a homeless teen in Oregon. I am upset by it but even more than that, I wonder how isolated an occurrence teen homelessness is? Ironically, Bill told me last night that his school district is using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as their theme for the year. I wonder, […]
Read More...Posted Oct 6 2011 in author, chocolate, Halloween, Miscellany, Patty Blount, phobia, scare
Yeah, yeah, I know that saying is ‘scare the crap out of me’ but chocolate is a much nicer visual, yes? Yes. Well, here we are in October again. Another year is just about over. As we get closer to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to talk about scares. Not the tragic ones […]
Read More...Posted Oct 2 2011 in author, Chocolate Sunday, fiction, Patty Blount, RWA
On Saturday, the Long Island Romance Writers met for a workshop led by the wonderful Laurie Schnebly Campbell. After a day spent with plots, goals, and motivating factors, a few of the members went out to dinner to continue our bonding. We hit a great restaurant in Garden City, where we were treated well by […]
Read More...Posted Sep 29 2011 in author, banned books, fiction, parenting, Patty Blount
It is Banned Books Week and to celebrate, my son and I thought this blog post would be a good start. I READ BANNED BOOKS! Yep, in shouty capital letters, I admit this. Even better, I urge my sons to read banned books, too. Why? Because I support the free exchange of ideas. Because I […]
Read More...Posted Sep 24 2011 in bullying, cyber-bullying, Jamie Rodemeyer, Patty Blount, social networking, suicide, teens, violence
The following blog post was written by my oldest son, Rob, and pre-empts this weekend’s usual chocolate post because the subject is too important to trivialize. I warn you – this is not easy to read and as Rob’s mother, I promise you, it’s even harder to bear because each time I read it, I […]
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