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Written by Ann Dee Ellis
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
Dear Everyone,
Thanks for all your kind comments and other things about BYU and Angeline Jolie. It means a lot.
I have been in Park City all last week. It is nice there. It is not so
nice here. I am hot. I like to walk around in my underwear. When I'm in
my underwear, I feel free but not too free like naked free. I also feel
like the neighbors can see me and I think, "am I the disgusting
underwear wearer on the street?" That is gross. But not gross enough
for me to stop immediately taking off my jeans as soon as I walk in the
door.
I also started teaching my summer term class last week. While I was at
Park City. This meant I had/got to drive down twice during the week to
get things a rolling. I am not going to complain about this because
both times I was with my husband which meant I could enjoy the
reservoirs, the canyon, the people on the side of the road selling
things, etc. Not bad. I also got to revisit my personal essay past.
Which brought back painful yet surprisingly fond memories of essays
about getting kissed upside down and then dumped, of essays about
feeling ugly and too hippy for all my jeans, and of my first workshop
experience after everyone read my personal essay and rather than offer
genuine/useful writing feedback, they all just looked embarrassed and
sad for me and quietly said, "It'll be okay."
My aunt died. This is the second aunt to die in two weeks. My first
aunt's funeral was last week week. On the fourth of July we're having a
memorial service for a cousin who died last winter in Seattle. Many of
us couldn't go to the funeral so we're having one here. On the fifth
of July we're having a viewing and a funeral for my second aunt (mother
of the cousin who died). All this has pushed me to think about death
and viewings and aunts and family and bodies and how it all fits
together. Death is a strange and separating and uniting thing.
If you see me in my underwear, it's your fault not mine. I've warned you.
Love, Me.
P.S. I am going to the hot air balloony thing this week. I must. At six
thirty a.m. on the fourth of July. I will even wear clothes.
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Written by Ann Dee Ellis
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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I'm going to try to get my blog back on because for a few reasons: - I had a WONDERFUL week at the BYU WIFYR conference and I didn't blog about it every day and I should have. In fact, if I was smart, I would have stolen all the freewrites from the students in my class and posted them. They were all really incredible and funny and then I would have looked popular and smart because there would be incredible funny things posted right here and who cares if I didn't write them?
- ALSO, I wish i would keep up on things better. I wish I kept contact. I wish I ate grapefruit. I wish I could tell you everything I learned last week and I wish everyone could get as energized by a conference as I did even though I was about to die by the end because I was so tired and so fat pregnant and so runningaroundtryingtogetthebabysitterthingworking and all that. It was a great conference and I if anyone reads this who was there, please let me know. And say you want to be a reader of the week. And encourage me to blog because I don't and i wish I'd taken pictures and I have problems.
- I'm starting my BYU class today and I think perhaps blogging about it would release stress.
- I miss having some kind of contact with the outside world other than reading about Angelina Jolie and how much the twins baby pictures are going to go for.
Okay. That's not really anything but at least it's something.
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Written by Ann Dee Ellis
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
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I just found out that This is What I Did: (along with Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl) is an honor book on the International Reading association's 2008 list. Yay! So happy I could eat a whole juicy watermelon. Also, for those interested,  Everything Is Fine
Everything Is Fine Author(s): Ellis, Ann DeeISBN10: 0316013641ISBN13: 9780316013642Format: HardcoverPub. Date: 3/1/2009Publisher(s): Little Brown & Co
will be out in March. Kind of a long time but less than a year, right?Thanks everyone. |
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Written by Ann Dee Ellis
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
is the Provo Book Festival at the Provo Public Library which also happens to be my dad's old high school. It's a beautiful building
(and also the VERY PLACE where Cam and I had our wedding party/dance).
And, aside from it being an awesome place, it's going to be an awesome event.
There will be all kinds of famous Utah authors. Sara Zarr, Brandon
Mull, Brandon Sanderson, Chris Crowe, Anne Cannon, Rick Walton, Anne
Bowen and many many others. So if you're into picture books, fantasy,
science fiction, REALISTIC YA FICTION, or basically anything
having to do with reading for kids and teens, you won't want to miss
this. Sara and I are doing a book talk thingie at 1:00 and then I'll be
signing afterwards with a lot of big wigs. So come play.
In other news, Mr. Baby spilled all my kosher salt right on the floor. Then he drew pictures in it. So creative. ALSO, the BYU Writing for Children conference is coming up. I'm excited.
I think that's all for now. |
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Written by Ann Dee Ellis
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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My interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith is up and running! Here's how that makes me feel:
That's a happy but serious face. I don't know what to tell you about the other face . . . excited? Maniacal? Maniacal EDIT: Link to interview is now working.
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