Archer <3 Alice

Every Tuesday we go to the local library, listen to the librarian read stories, make an art project, or not. Usually not. Usually wear pipe-cleaners as bracelets instead of decorating a paper bag to look like a cat. Not quite at the craft stage yet.

Craft-time usually leads to check-out-book time where Archer picks out a book or ten to take home. But last week's "book-o-the-week" choosing took a surprising turn when Archer came to me with a pink-covered novel from the young-adult section.

"What's this?" I asked.

Archer smiled and held out his book proudly. A kind-eyed red-haired girl was grinning from the cover. Alice. Lovingly Alice.

"You don't want to check this book out. It doesn't have any pictures!"

But Archer clung to the book for dear life.

"Okay, okay. Let's check the book out then. But how about we go look for another. With pictures?"

But Archer didn't want to look for another book. He wanted Lovingly Alice and ONLY Lovingly Alice.



I figured by the time we got home he would have been over Alice. That she would become forgotten and we would go back to reading Hop on Pop or The Quiet Cricket over and over but I was wrong. There was something about Alice. Lovingly Alice. And not even two-hundred pages of text could deter Archer from his favorite new book.

He's had the book a week now and he's still going strong.

What? It's a really good book, Mom.

A REALLY good book.

Lovingly,
Archer

GGC

Let's Grab a Drink and Talk About Stuff That Matters

**Updated, with dates, and new cities, below**

Oh... I'm a traveling maaaan...

So.... I'm trying to strategize a book tour, which is a lot of work, confusing, expensive, awesome, expensive, and overwhelming. Especially when it comes to choosing locations, because, uh.... Um. Yeah.

I've got the following cities on lockdown, sort of:

San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Portland
Vancouver
New York
Boston
Chicago
Detroit
Charlotte
Washington DC
Austin
Atlanta


Other possible stops include Minneapolis, Dallas, St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Philly, Miami, Toronto, Tampa, South Jersey...

Do you live in any of the aforementioned cities and/or where is the closest city to your home? And if you live in California, where about-ish? The west-coast portion of the tour will be the most extensive leg of the trip, obviously, but I'm wiiiiide open to locations. Would love to meet you/ have some drinks/ sing songs/ do each other's makeup/ raid local piano bars, etc.

**Also, it looks like west-coast leg will be third week in April-ish. East Coast, Mid-west and Southern stops: first two weeks of May.***

Thank you all in advance for delurking/providing your city coordinates/ being awesome. Go team!

GGC

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That Mom

I am now officially a member of the "My Kid's Scribble-drawing Is Actually a Sort of Prodigious Masterpiece I Must Stick on the Fridge and Worship" club.

Seascape XIV: Ink and Crayon, 2007, Archer Sagebrush, American

Would you look at that use of color? A purple sun? So deep. A vertical sky? So profound.

GGC