{"id":7895,"date":"2017-05-12T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T03:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2017-05-12T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T03:59:47","slug":"project-52-week-47-part-three-bloggers-books-and-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=7895","title":{"rendered":"Project 52, Week 47, Part Three – Bloggers, Books, and Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for Project 52<\/a>, Week 47!<\/p>\n

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47 weeks ago, on my 52nd birthday<\/a>, I began Project 52. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, each week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking one year of my life and blogging about it. This week, I’m covering the year I was 47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d June 14, 2011, to June 14, 2012.<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a>, I talked about the long process of recovering from my stroke – and the big family gathering that happened in Oregon when my brother Robert got married on September 4, 2011. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I mentioned it this week, but I was back working in the library after spending six months working in the Office for Children during Year 46, due to budget cuts. However, I was a Librarian I working in adult services, rather than a Youth Services Manager, at City of Fairfax Regional Library, where I still work. The good thing about not being in Youth Services – I think it was easier for the library to do without me while I was recovering from my stroke and not working very many full weeks. There was less stress as well. And, spoiler alert, eventually I got the Youth Services Manager position at Fairfax – the RIF that brought me there probably helped me get that promotion in the end.<\/p>\n

And I had another trip to the Pacific northwest coming up! This one was also booked before<\/em> I had my stroke. KidLitCon was in Seattle this year, and I couldn’t resist going. Only very dedicated readers will remember – but I lived in the Seattle area when I was very young<\/a> – and still kept Seattle as my ideal of the best place to live, with my youth-biased memories. So what a great excuse to visit.<\/p>\n

(Also, I see from my journal entries that I was trying to do many<\/em> more things than I was physically capable of doing so soon after the stroke. Take some time to heal, Sondy! Oh well, before long I started making trips to the E. R. when the vestibular migraines started up and I was afraid they were another stroke. Anyway, that got me to slow down a bit.)<\/p>\n

Here is Melissa Fox, who I first met at KidLitCon ’09, my roommate Lisa Song, and Farida Dowler – whom I’d corresponded with for years – meeting because of Sonderbooks!<\/p>\n

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And at lunchtime, we’re joined by Maureen Kearney and Liz Burns:<\/p>\n

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On a break, I visited the Seattle Public Library:<\/p>\n

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I blogged about KidLitCon<\/a> (of course!) and how it gave me Connection, Encouragement, and Fascinating Information!<\/p>\n

For a long time, I’ve seen my website Sonderbooks<\/a> and the associated blogs as a major part of my calling, of who I am, and of who I am as a librarian. Even though I write them on my own time. KidLitCon is about blogging about children’s books, and at the time I was temporarily not a children’s librarian – but I was still one in my heart!<\/p>\n

And then came yet another book-related, even children’s book-related event – the National Book Festival! I blogged about that, too.<\/a> That year, it was blistering hot! But I got to hear some great speakers.<\/p>\n

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Lois Lowry:<\/p>\n

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Kadir Nelson:<\/p>\n

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Patricia McKissack:<\/p>\n

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And Gary Schmidt, whom I honestly hoped would win the Newbery that year with Okay for Now<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Sara Lewis Holmes joined me in talking with Gary after his talk.<\/p>\n

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My calendar still shows lots of sick days and doctor appointments. I had another MRI on October 4th. My right vertebral artery was still blocked – no blood getting through. And yet in my journal, I said I thought I had healed from the stroke, and was just worried about a cold I’d had. Oh, Sondy, you’ve actually got a ways to go yet!<\/p>\n

But meanwhile, I’d applied a second time to be a judge for the Cybils Awards (didn’t get it – that year) and a third time to attend the William Morris Invitational Seminar on Book Evaluation happening at ALA Midwinter Meeting. (I did get that!) I was taking an online class on the Printz Award. And I was even taking time to get out – on October 9, I visited Meadowlark Gardens and took some pictures.<\/p>\n

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Fall color was just beginning.<\/p>\n

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Well, years go by – but I still enjoy walking among flowers, butterflies, and fall leaves.<\/p>\n

Now it’s getting late. This week’s going to need yet another Part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for Project 52, Week 47! 47 weeks ago, on my 52nd birthday, I began Project 52. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, each week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking one year of my life and blogging about it. This week, I’m covering the year I was 47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d June 14, 2011, to June 14, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}