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Rockin' October…

October has been a busy, super-creative, and delicious month this year! The themes are BOOKS, BAKED GOODS, and VIDEOS… I’ve been: Booksigning & Buy-the-Book Month for The Bullying Antidote… Doin’ Zumba Polka at Dimond’s Oaktoberfest… Rooting for the Athletics with a Walk-off Pie viral video… Enjoying books with pies & cakes at CWC’s LitCake… …and […]

Have a slice of LitCake!

This summer I won a great honor… first place in the California Writers Club’s annual literary dessert contest!
The cake I made was a collaborative effort with my family; we’d made it once before for a baking contest for the teen program at Chabot Science Center. The cake represented HAL 9000, the passive-aggressive supercomputer from the Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001… and since it was powered by technology (an iPod spouting lines from the movie), it drowned out all the other cakes with its awesomeness.

A "Bay Area Bloomer"

Though I’m actually an original GenX-er, I got to be an honorary baby boomer in The Monthly  in October. The quotations sounded somewhat intelligent, so I excerpted them here… with illustrations! “Cartooning is actually theater that hasn’t happened on stage yet,” says Caven. “I love the written word and language. Cartoons are like little idea containers.” […]

Book signing Wednesday 10/2 at 7p.m.

Local authors Dr. Louise Hart and Kristen Caven will be speaking at A Great Good Place for Books tomorrow night about their new book, The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life.   Bestselling author Rick Hansen, who wrote The Buddha’s Brain, says it “provides parents with the knowledge and skills necessary to raise strong, resilient, assertive and emotionally healthy kids.” Jonathan […]