



Some Reader Favorites Columns by Deirdre:
A Fifth Grade Chaperone's Tale
Spring Is Here - So Get to Work in the Yard
American Idol And The FluDeirdre has been on radio across the country as a repeat guest in major markets (and has filled in as a commercial-reader when needed), a television guest (she is known for starting many answers to a host's question with silence, followed by muttering "You didn't tell me you were going to ask that"), and has been a guest speaker in many different settings, from professional development seminars, to PTA groups, to random people at Dunkin' Donuts when she hasn't had a gig in awhile. She lives a great life just outside Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, three sons, two dogs, one cat, and a tortoise named Gary, who is the inspiration for many of her best works (according to Gary himself).
So, enjoy the site and all it has to offer, and join us here on these pages often!
"Sour D" in this clip live from the Middle East in Boston!
Sep. 8, 2010: Hello, visitors, I hope you had a wonderful summer. My faith in the weather in general was restored when we had the hottest and prettiest summer in memory here in New England - I hardly knew what to do at Cape Cod without a sweater and jeans and a nice warm fire in the firepit! Now fall - my favorite season - is here, and it's time to get back to work. I enjoyed making the above Youtube video; check for another soon on the economy. (I think I know how to fix it; it's really quite simple. ) I have been doing a lot of thinking about writing, which writers do a lot - although not the ones that are productive. I am getting back to work on my second book now, and am no longer promising anything about when it will be done.
Maybe I'm scared to be finished? Food for thought, as autumn rolls in. Thank you for visiting, and come back again! Archive of columns to be installed here soon..."
Deirdre's Music, Book and Film Favorites:
Recommended ipod Download:
Recommended ipod download: Susan Boyle's version of Rolling Stone's "Wild
Horses." Knowing that lyrics were representative of a real person's
thoughts after an attempted suicide makes it even more touching. Can't get me
enough SB!
Recommended CD: Raul Midon, Synthesis. I love this artist; go
ahead and purchase this one just on my say-so...I won't let you down.
Recommended Reading: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Come
on, you can do it: read a classic this fall! This is one of my favorite stories
about two sisters persuing love in their vastly different ways, while (or
whilst, as they would say) treading the social perils of old England.
Recommended Rental: Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges. I even
liked Maggie Gyllenhall in this - her hippie-chick ways work here. I love the
non-pat ending; Hollywood is killing us lately with their plastic-wrap of every
situation and feeling.
These Days
Quote for Fall:
Our waking hours form the text of our lives; our dreams are the
commentary. ~Anonymous
