Connect with C. Lee McKenzie Today is  another thirteenth on the calendar and not only a thirteenth, but the second Friday with the number thirteen in 2009. First February and now March. How "lucky" is that? I wonder if this has anything to do with the plunging stock market? And here we've been blaming greed. Tsk. Tsk. I was thinking about how the world of children's literature capitalizes on our superstition.  One famous example that pops up when you Google those key words is A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket. Does he end his children's book series at… Continue reading

I've never considered myself a particularly brave person.  I avoid dark streets, strangers when I'm alone, unfamiliar trails in the late afternoon--stuff like that.  Spiders smaller than my fist don't bother me, but a snake (even behind glass in a zoo) shifts my limbic system into high grear. I also send a relative to the mailbox when I'm waiting for an SASE from a publisher. So when I woke up this morning and remembered I'd agreed to blog on THIS of all days, I began to question my sanity. "Do you realize that today is not only the 13th day of… Continue reading