Nov 21

Nov 21 Episode #133: How We Organize Our Lives

Welcome back! Thanks for listening to another episode this week of Book Friends Forever. Grace and Alvina talk about how they organize their lives, from their daily routines to how they organize their bookshelves. A few important reminders:

Don’t forget the 2022 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Trilogy CALENDARS are now available! You can order it and get it personally autographed (as well as any of Grace Lin books) from the Eric Carle Museum. Last year we ran out before the holidays, so best to get it now!
https://shop.carlemuseum.org/.../autographed-books/grace-lin
The Book Friends are doing an episode dedicated to the memory of those authors and illustrators we lost this year. They would love to hear your memories of these authors and how they touched your life in some way or another. On the bookfriendsforever.com menu, click “Record your author/Illustrator Tribute” and record your memories through Speakpipe. Some of the authors and illustrators we lost: Jerry Pinkney, Tomie DePaola, Beverley Cleary, Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, Patricia Reilly Giff, Floyd Cooper, and Gary Paulsen.
Thank you to the new BFF Patron, Karen! Thank you for supporting us Karen! If you’re interested in having your own grateful read on this podcast, please join our Patreon page. Thank you for supporting this podcast!

Catching up on each other’s lives…

Grace has a fun Halloween and went dressed as a lobster. (Thanks to a friend that had some extra costumes laying around!) Hazel went as Katara from Avatar. Grace’s other podcast, Kids Ask Authors, reached it’s milestone 100th episode! Alvina had a nice “staycation” where she visited the Brooklyn Museum and saw the Christian Dior Exhibit. She also made it out to Coney Island, and the New York Aquarium. For Halloween, she went to a trunk-or-treat with Stephen’s family. This sparks a conversation about the many different kinds of Halloween celebrations.

Organizing One’s Life:

Grace and Alvina both walk us through their daily routines from sunrise to sunset. They talk about routines, rituals, goals, and what helps them with staying organized. The book friends discuss what in their daily schedules has changed since the pandemic. They dive into the topic of email management, book shelf organization, and using helpful tools such as Trello and Airtable.

Fortune Cookie Segment: “What have we been reading?”

Grace:

Alvina:

Gratefuls:

Alvina is grateful that she is loved and accepted by Stephen’s family and that he is also loved by her family. She feels incredibly lucky that they all like to spend time together.

Grace is grateful that she’s raised an incredibly kind-hearted daughter when she witnessed Hazel naturally being kind to another peer on Halloween.

*If you’re a patron, don’t forget to check out this week’s Random Questions feed! Authors Jennifer Ziegler and Grace Lin answer the question, “What do you think of garden gnomes?” Click here to listen! If you’re not a patron already, join today!

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