Want to know EXACTLY when Santa will land on your roof this year? My kids certainly do. And thanks to my sister telling me about the North American Aerospace Defence Command’s high tech radar tracking system, we will know. And you can, too. Here’s the link: www.noradsanta.org. For more than 50 years, NORAD and its […]
Rerun: “The Presidents and the Potty”
In celebration of today’s U.S. presidential election, I have been “showing reruns” of my most patriotic posts. “The Presidents and the Potty” was originally posted in February 2008, just after the primary elections, when my triplet sons had just turned three years old. Many presidents have found that the metaphorical fall from the presidency to […]
Rerun: “Presidents Halverson”
In celebration of the pending U.S. presidential election, I’m going to “show reruns” of my two most patriotic posts. I originally posted “Presidents Halverson” during the presidential primaries back in February. My recent post about my Big Thinker, my future U.S. President, got me to Thinking Big myself: What if ALL THREE of my boys […]
Me and My Big Mouth: A Sweet, Rubbery Chew
Writing a novel that celebrates the best and worst of food is pretty easy, just figure out the foods you love and hate the most, then go at it. Okay, maybe that simplifies things a bit, but not all that much, really. My novel BIG MOUTH is filled with my food likes and dislikes, with […]
Horn Book Guide Gives BIG MOUTH a Thumbs Up!
Please forgive me for tootin’ my own “horn”, but I’m thrilled to report that the new issue of The Horn Book Guide gives BIG MOUTH a cool thumbs up! The Horn Book Guide reviews over 2,000 titles in each semiannual issue , virtually every children’s and young adult book published in the United States in […]
Me and My Big Mouth: Does This Book Cover Make You Hungry?
It’s probably the hot dog that makes me hungry when I see the cover of BIG MOUTH. Then again, maybe it’s the tomatoes, or the bowl of mustard, or the onions, or the long squishy line of mustard, all items that turn a plain old frank into a full-fledged meal. Or maybe, quite simply, it’s […]
Well Enough
This summer I worked with a wellness coach for ten weeks. The key thing that I learned is that it’s okay to do only as much as I can and not beat myself over the head because I can’t do all that I should or would like to do. Sounds simple, but it was a […]
‘Where in the World…?’ Update: BIG MOUTH in Italy
I “lost” a copy of BIG MOUTH in the Los Angeles International Airport the day my family boarded our flight to London. Not only was that book found, it has been taken on holiday to Italy by a reader named Cristina. (Read Cristina’s email to me on my “Where in the World . . . […]
100 Pounds of Dental Floss in a 50-Pound Bag
New Zealand Air’s website states that each passenger is allowed two pieces of checked luggage, one carry-on, and one personal item. That put the Halversons’ allowed load at ten checked bags, five carry-ons, and five personal items. Twenty bags total. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? It wasn’t enough.
Where in the World? update: Kelsey ‘Finds’ BIG MOUTH at Comic-Con
16-year-old Kelsey got a little more than she bargained for at San Diego’s Comic-Con last week: She found one of the four copies of BIG MOUTH that were “lost” at the convention. If you want to see where Kelsey plans to “lose” the book when she’s done reading it, go to the “Where in the […]
My Interview in Today’s North County Times!
My mom was skimming her Sunday paper in Escondido today and spotted a feature about me and BIG MOUTH: “County Author Inspired by Coney Island Tradition.” What a surprise for her! I’d deliberately kept my interview with the North County Times reporter last week a secret from her and Dad, hoping that this would happen. […]
Shout-Out to Monica of North Carolina
It’s gotta be weird to pop into a bookstore during your vacation and walk smack into a table of books with grinning hot dog faces on them, and then see some lady grinning at you from between the stacks with an equally goofy grin. But 14-year-old Monica of North Carolina went with the moment last […]
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Champ 2008
Once again, hot dogs steal the headlines of America’s newspapers–no, make that the WORLD’s newpapers: Joey Chestnut retained the Mustard Yellow Belt, eating 59 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, plus another 5 more in a sudden death tie-breaker against his nemesis, Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi. In the end, Chestnut beat Tsunami by a single […]
Me and My Big Mouth: The World’s Biggest Food Fight
There’s a Mustard Rebellion in my new novel BIG MOUTH: The students of Del Heiny Junior High #13 tag their school with mustard to rebel against the school’s tomato-obsessed sponsor, Del Heiny Ketchup Company. (Hey, if your mascot were changed from the Mighty Marauders to the Proud Plum Tomatoes, you’d have angst, too. At least […]
Announcing BigMouthTheBook.com
“How many can YOU eat?” In the spirit of the Fourth of July, the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Championship, and the publishing of my teen novel BIG MOUTH, I’m launching a website dedicated to BIG MOUTH and the quirkiest All-American food ever: hot dogs. www.BigMouthTheBook.com has excerpts from the book, fun […]
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