I'm thrilled to announce that my MG novel MacKenzie's Last Run was named winner of the children's fiction category in the Midwest Book Awards. Gold stickers will look especially beautiful on its cover, don't you agree?
A great weekend of baseball for this group of 14 Batavia athletes
2 teams, an 8-1 combined record and a championship for the Jason Prescott Memorial
We finally won a home tournament
8u semi finals
9u 2nd place
10u 2nd place
11u 2nd place
12u not good lol
13u 2nd place
14u Champs
.@BataviaBaseball senior Jack Watson, who threw a two-hit, seven-strikeout shutout in Batavia’s 5-0 sectional semifinal win over Wheaton Warrenville South, is the @KaneCountyPreps Athlete of the Week.
His Q&A with @JakeBartelson:
https://t.co/ScXfwsnam8. @BataviaHS
@katealbus@GayleRosengren Oh, the 6th graders yesterday were aghast that the ancient Romans didn't have toilet paper. And that elastic is a fairly new invention. They have no historical framework for everyday objects.
@katealbus You'd be surprised. @GayleRosengren Cold War on Maple Street starts with a girl heating tomato soup on the stove and talking to a grandmother (?) on a landline, and my students are just amazed at how different life was.
Donald Trump running for President again? I was the one walking over broken glass at 4 a.m. after the Jan. 6th insurrection with pages carrying the mahogany boxes of electoral ballots. Democracy prevailed that day.
We will not go backwards and descend into his chaos again.