Episode #181: Chop Suey: Epic Stuff update, HarperCollins Strike, and Holiday Traditions!
Grace and Alvina discuss their plan for talking about what epic stuff they want to achieve, they discuss the HarperCollins strike, and talk about holiday traditions!
Catching Up
Alvina just got back from Thanksgiving with Stephen’s family. Unfortunately, his mom has Shingles. They drove to Kaaterskill Falls after a night in the Catskills all together playing games and watching Napolean Dynamite!
Grace has been working hard on her deadline and had a nice quiet Thanksgiving with friends. She is getting ready to run her Hot Chocolate 5k!
CHOP SUEY:
Publishing News: THe Harper Collins Strike https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/passion-doesnt-pay-the-bills.html
What are some of your holiday traditions?
Grace: Chicken Run at Thanksgiving. Alex’s mom has many of the Christmas traditions that she want to pass on to Hazel. They cook them in Canada and bring it all down here. They also sing Christmas carols to the chickens! They buy fancy Christmas chocolates.
Alvina: Finding new traditions now that she is married to Stephen. Her main Thanksgiving tradition is that she makes her apple pie from scratch! For Christmas they are doing things different every year. Alvina would like to revive the Kareoke tradition. For New Year’s, Alvina is big on missions statements and resolutions.
“What we could be reading” with Alison Morris
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza Wild Facts about Animals and the Scientists Who Study Them, NCTE, The Indestructible Tom Crean Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic, The Universe in You A Microscopic Journey, The Mermaid Moon, Just Like Grandma, Old Friends,
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