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Here she is, world . . .

Roger Sutton — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:47:17 +0000

Chloe Beth Asch; photo by Dorian Asch

Our granddaughter Chloe was born last Thursday night. Miles seems just fine with her. Have you guys heard about “The Baby’s Gift”? It’s where the dethroned only child goes to hospital and gets a present from the newborn. Retail doesn’t miss a trick.

(At least it’s better than The Diaper Game. I am never going to a baby shower again.)

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>Toddler talk

Roger Sutton — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:09:00 +0000

>Our Kitty and her son Jakob found themselves on Salley Mavor’s blog this week.

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Jakob of the Ducks

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>The power of art

Roger Sutton — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:45:00 +0000

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Baby Evelyn, a friend of Lolly’s, really likes to throw herself into her reading.

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>Old home week

Roger Sutton — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:36:00 +0000

>Didn’t kiss no pigs but did have a glorious drive down (up? up and down?) Sunset Blvd. from the Getty Museum to the heart of Hollywood. (Unfortunately, the only stars we saw were of the reality-show stripe, Bruce and Kris Jenner, sitting in the booth next to ours at Beso, the restaurant managed by son Ethan. I had to be told who they were. Ethan also introduced us to Beso chef Todd English, who arrived at the restaurant with a bevy of beauties.)

The work part of the week went fine. I spoke about Mommy/Daddy-loves-you-best books at Pomona to an audience of enthusiastic students, profs, booksellers and writers (Susan Patron, Candace Ryan, and Megan Whalen Turner graciously attended.) After lunch (our thirty-year-old favorite, patty melts at Walters, which has gotten way fancier) the next day with my old Pitzer bestie Ruth, we went over to the campus for a rather more intime (read: sparsely attended) but lively discussion of censorship with Susan and then went for a walk around the campus, Old home week" border="0" title=">Old home week" />which has doubled in size since the 70s. The students were very polite to us Olds, and even praised the cafeteria food. (The all-you-can-eat ice cream, rumored to be a string attached to a bequest, was gone, but I noted that two vegan specialities were offered on each menu.) Right: Susan Patron and me.

And son Dorian and his wife were very gracious to drive out to SFO for our stopover on the way home, bringing number-one-grandson Miles along for our adoration. When did he turn from a baby into a little boy? (He’s not even a year yet, so it must be the haircut.)

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And now I’m back and pondering the in-box drama that is the ALSC discussion of lowering its age level of service from fourteen to thirteen. It’s amazing what can draw fire from the dragon ladies’ throats!

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>Eat these words

Roger Sutton — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:20:00 +0000

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>See Baby Miles. See Baby Miles Read.

Roger Sutton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:39:00 +0000

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(I take it as a mark of long-delayed maturity that I now find holding a baby more rewarding than playing with a puppy.)

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>Shana tova!

Roger Sutton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:06:00 +0000

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Miles and me on Rosh Hashanah.

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>Debating Black Books

Roger Sutton — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:15:00 +0000

>Due to popular demand, we’re posting Lelac Almagor’s And Stay Out of Trouble: Narratives for Black Urban Children from the September/October special issue on Trouble. And to further, er, trouble the waters, we have a response to the article from writer Sharon G. Flake. I’d be interested to hear any comments in the comments.

As previously mentioned, I am going to California to see our boys, their wives and the new grandson. Kitty and Lolly will be here to keep you all in line and I’ll be back next week. Au reservoir!

[Update: Lelac Almagor responds]

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Here’s our grandson!

Roger Sutton — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:39:00 +0000

Miles Henkels Asch, born to Julie and Dorian Asch on June 20th at 12:44PM PST, 7 lbs. 6 oz., 19″ long.

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>Back from TLA,

Roger Sutton — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:30:00 +0000

>and man, I do love those Texas librarians (notable exceptions aside). Forthright and friendly in nature, enthusiastic and smart about books. Although our booth was down by the clothing and jewelry department (which I’ll never understand: “What, this? Just a little thing I picked up at the librarians’ convention.”) I was kept plenty busy, but had nothing like the success of our sales rep Katrina Elmer, completely fabulous at getting people to stop at our booth and then roping them in for a subscription or two. We weren’t even giving away candy. Also had a lively dinner with Randy and Andrew (aka my bosses) from Media Source along with Viki Ash, Betty Carter, Katie Turner and Dick Abrahamson, great Texas book people all. Next week takes me to Ohio for a board meeting, soon followed by a trip to Chicago for the Sutherland Lecture, again there for ALA (thank goodness it remains my favorite city) and there’s a grandchild arriving in California soon, too. Phew.

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