bloomabilities

I'm a children's book editor living in Brooklyn. I post about books, publishing, life, travel, food, and other random stuff. I was widowed in 2016, and may post about my grief and recovery on occasion as well.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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Bloomability by Sharon Creech is one of my favorite children's books. In the book, one of the characters makes up words, and in his world, "bloomability" means "possibility." I believe in bloomabilities.



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    A random sampling of SOME of the blogs I read semi-regularly. This will no doubt keep growing.

    • 100 words a day
    • A Crowe's Nest
    • a solitary grace
    • Amy, dig?
    • Andrew Shih's Blog
    • Antinomia
    • Bartography
    • Big A little a
    • black trunk
    • Bookseller Chick
    • BookSmart
    • Brooklyn Arden
    • Christopher Cheng's Blog: It's All About the Books
    • cute OVERLOAD
    • David Yoo's Blog
    • don't mess with papa meagher
    • drawger
    • Earl Pickens blogblogblog
    • Elephants in the Attic
    • fireside chat...with meghan
    • Fuse #8
    • Gawker
    • Gladwell.com
    • Gothamist
    • Gotta Book
    • Greek Tragedy
    • http://gettinginnyc.wordpress.com/
    • hunter::gathering
    • it's gone too far
    • Jenny Han
    • kabloggy
    • ktbuffy a-go-go!
    • leesiedoodle
    • Loaf of Bread Car
    • Mercadoodles
    • mitali's fire escape
    • Mother Reader
    • Must Love Books
    • My Two Left Feet
    • Mystic Libby
    • Nathan Bransford-Literary Agent
    • newmanpicturesblog
    • no want decaf!
    • One Writer's Journey
    • pretty in the city
    • Ramble Tamble
    • Read Roger
    • rhcrayon: The Blog!
    • Robin's Roundup
    • Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
    • sfxian
    • Shen's Blog
    • sMOOchalicious
    • Stacy Whitman's Grimoire
    • Steve Was Liked By All
    • Stories of our Days in the Bahamas, New York and Paris
    • Telling the Truth: A Writer's Journal
    • The Disco Mermaids
    • The Hwangest Time
    • the JJK Blog
    • The Lisa Yee Blog
    • The Longstockings
    • The Single File
    • Tockla's World of Children's Literature
    • Trying to tri

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