MIA again?!
Oy, it’s been several days since I’ve polka-dotted. I’m so bad. My excuse is that I was finishing up my fifth book. I know I say this every time, but this one was So Much Fun! I know I’ve still got the edits and the tweaks and the “forgot this!”s to go through, but phew [...]
ENERGY won an award!
Hey, just heard that my third book, Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It just won a children’s book award! It got a silver medal in the environment category. How fun is that?!
Kids these days…and those days
We just returned from a frosty trip up to NY State. Ah, home to warm weather. I’m sure I’ll thaw in a week or two. En route, we listened to a big bag full of books on tape. One of them was The Wizard of Oz. Naturally, we’ve seen the movie. But I can’t believe [...]
Polkadotsuitcase goes to NY
I mentioned to our deli gal that we were headed to NY, and she said, “Oh, Times Square! The Statue of Liberty! Good Morning America!” and I didn’t have the heart to tell her we weren’t going to NY City — we were going upstate. To a campground. That no one had probably heard of. [...]
Dutch treat
So you know what’s almost as fun as cooking with pie irons? Cooking outside with a cast iron Dutch oven! I oiled up a little 2-quart beauty, fired up the charcoal chimney, donned my welder’s gloves, and did some Dutch oven cooking this afternoon. We made “Sticky Chicken,” perhaps in honor of the crazy chickens [...]
Football talk
Hello, Bloglings! Sir Buffalo Sushi, here. It’s been a while since I’ve written. Well, as you may know, Michael Vick is now with the Eagles. All I have to say, “I was an co-Eagles fan, until Michael Vick joined.” Not only has he gotten back in the NFL, which is a disgrace, but he’s coming [...]
Return of the pie iron
Okay, so I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from Polka Dot Suitcase. Miss me? Happily, Big Fish is nicely healing from his four-level spinal fusion (ouch!) and we’re back in business. Looks like I’ve got some blog-catching-up to do. And what better way to start than to revisit my beleaguered pie iron attempts [...]
