Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Perfect score Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . This is Schuyler. She is holding this week's spelling test. The words print...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . In a moment of seemingly random generosity, two different readers sent Schuyler items off her ...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Tomorrow, I'm going to spend the day in Austin pretending to be a fancy pants author, visi...

"Love mommy and daddy" Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . One of the things we'd sort of come to accept about Schuy...

TV buddy Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Schuyler has more to tell you this morning... ----- My dinosaur is orange and yellow ...

Before the fluttering of TV-ready flags and the patriotic, outraged sputtering gets too loud for anyone to think clearly, let's hear it ...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . You know, when there's a huge new event in the world, I always have to pause and see if I ...

Happy dragon girl Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Okay, so the thing we discovered in our Box Class a few days ago? The one t...

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

So I got a surprise comment left on a previous entry, Things to do in Plano , from none other than the brother of the monkey guy himself. Be...

Julie ran across a passage in a book she's reading, James Reston, Jr.'s Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter...

I should probably post something like this every now and then, especially as we get closer to the book release.

Holding court Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Sometimes we do things for Schuyler that help her along in the world. We make d...

I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower, And under the arches of the bridge, and ...

Monkey love Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Sometimes it pays to read your local news. A man right here in Plano, Texas had hi...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I'd like to find a new term for special needs parents, one that doesn't include the ha...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I was watching The Today Show this morning because it was far too early for actual quality pr...

Huh? Why did my favorite TV show just turn into Lost ? I also can't believe it's not going to return until my book comes out. They ...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I wrote a long post over at Monster Notes , my bookety book crap blog, about my publisher'...