Susane Colasanti's Blog, page 76

When I was a teacher, I had this thing about attendance. I wanted mine to be perfect. I felt really strongly about being at school every day for my kids. As someone who was abused and neglected as a teen (which is why I've dedicated my life to helping teens, by the way), I know what it feels like to have no one at home you can talk to or trust. So even though it was just for one class during their day, I wanted my kids to know that they had someone who would be there every day for them. I h

Anne Hathaway and I don't have much in common. If we were walking down the street together, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to tell us apart. But for some reason, people keep saying I look like her. When I was a teacher, a lot of my students said how I looked like the Princess Diaries girl. At the time, I didn't know who the Princess Diaries girl was. Now Anne seems to be everywhere and people are getting more aggressive about coming up to me. This guy actually followed me off the subway the

It seems to be July. How did that happen? I don't know if it's been the incessant cloudy, rainy weather or what, but it totally doesn't feel like summer at all. Well, hey, here we are, so welcome! If you're on summer vacay, I hope you're having a blast so far. The thing I always loved most about summer vacay was the possibility of returning to school as this whole other person. Where you could show up on the first day and be the person you'd always wanted to be, and everyone would just acc

Congrats to the winner of my Along for the Ride giveaway, dramatistwriter ! There were so many awesome comments that I had to randomly select my winner. Reading all of your entries about your favorite Sarah Dessen books was incredible. You can read everyone's comments here.

Speaking of great books, have you read Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson?

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I've been a hardcore Blake Nelson fan since Girl came out and was shelved in the adult fiction section. So I was majorly stoked for this book. It di

There's this force that drives me to always be working towards my goals. It keeps me wanting more, always moving ahead, always thinking about the next goal I want to reach before I even reach the one I'm working on. This drive is good and bad. It's good because it keeps me going, even when I don't feel like going anywhere. When you're your own boss, you have to be in charge of your own work schedule. Being an organization freak definitely helps. And loving what I do makes me excited to star

1. Ever since Take Me There came out in paperback last month, I've been hearing from more readers asking about Rhiannon's name. I've even heard from two girls actually named Rhiannon, which is seriously awesome. One sharp reader asked if Rhiannon and Sara from When It Happens were named after Fleetwood Mac songs. She is correct! Sara was named after both a friend and the song "Sara," while Rhiannon was named after the song "Rhiannon." Which reminds me...I haven't done a readers' Q&A here f

dumbrella


you acted all strong

then i was drenched on 10th street

oh, the betrayal!

Welcome to summer! For lots of people, summer already started on Memorial Day. For me, summer starts on the summer solstice, which was yesterday. Today always involves conflict. You'd think I would recognize this as an established annual event and be unaffected by now, but no. I want to be in the Now and appreciate the season of sunset walks and summer breeze and fireflies. But as of today, daylight hours are decreasing (and will continue to decrease until the day after the winter solstice)

...is the summer solstice!



Let's get our summer on.

Angela Chase's dad from My So-Called Life keeps showing up. He was on Private Practice and I just saw him in 24. I am convinced that this is a message from the Universe. Cancel quality shows, the dads of those shows will haunt others.

On a related note, I'm interested to see where this season of Private Practice went when it comes out on DVD. I like the show, only it seems to have already run into a similar problem as Grey's Anatomy did in season four: getting a bit ridiculous with all of t