First copies of ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM to arrive by express mail before midday on Wednesday. They did not. Left for the airport without seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, chewing on, my co-produced newborn and flew east for 10 hours to the Old World. I do not know when/if my newborn will catch up with me,(…)
Oneiro Press, U.K., announces the publication of ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM by ALISON LESLIE GOLD and DARIN ELLIOT. It’s available in the U.S. and worldwide (as a book or kindle) by ordering from Amazon. Written for ages 10-13 but for people of all ages who love dogs, skateboards, rabbits and parrots, and may know(…)
The last tomatoes! Behold! Cool, damp, moist, bewildered, looking every way at once. Look at the cover proof of ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM – back, front, and spine. Find a glaring error and get a free copy. While it’s being corrected, much nail-nibbling. And the gifts of nature, what to do with them?
Garden forgotten as heat, humidity, guests, exhaustion, theater, Statue of Liberty, trip upstate, much eating, drinking, eating, walking, collapsing displaced it. Returned yesterday to deluge of rain, so garden and final harvest of tiny tomatoes must wait until the departure of the airport car at 4 a.m. tomorrow morning. BUT … a paste-up of the(…)
There’s rosemary too, also dill and tiny tomatoes, mostly yellow, remaining in the garden. Ginger boiled in water overpowers a case of indigestion from who nows what. August’s come and gone, September brings that beguiling light, Virgo birthdays, visitors from England who’ve never been to America before. ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM trembles on a thin(…)
At 10:30 the other morning a gardening foot-soldier (Gail) and I solemnly visited the garden patch and clipped the sad eggplant from its tough stem. There wasn’t a scream or a squeal or even a sigh. Later, taking a break from prep for the pending publication of ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM, a sharpened knife sliced,(…)
My niece loves eggplant. We’ve started an Eggplant Tasters Society. She’s a professor, a scholar and a bon vivant, floating around all those galaxies while I, sweat soaked author, am fiddling with minutia in preparation for the coming publication of my co-written (with Darin Elliott) new book for ages 10 – 13 — ELEPHANT IN(…)
