FYI the Philadelphia Book Festival will be this Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18 at the Parkway Central Library, 19th and Vine. My panel is Sunday at 3:45. None other than Barbara Walters is headlining.

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It is so weird being pretty much done with teaching. True, I have a pile of student scripts to read and Friday I have to consult on some student films but during the school year literally every moment from 7 to 11 or 12 is taken up with something that I have to do so now, this bit of freedom feels like heaven.

As I blogged on BABBLE.COM, i took my girlfriend and our blending families to the Bronx Zoo. This weekend we're all going to Philadelphia. I'm on a panel at the book fair down there. I'm still working to get the word out on the book up to father's day. After that I'm done. It is what it is.

I'm also starting in on new projects which is always scary and exciting. There is a film that I am dying to write, an adaptation of another book. And there is my interracial beatnik love story that has been deviling me for years. I intend to crack it back open and fix it this summer.

Other than that my summer plans are so much in the air. I need to figure out something quick. I remember August here in the city was a soupy mess.

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It doesn't feel real but yes I'm done with Columbia classes till September. To celebrate I went to yoga today for the first time in months and I'm pleasantly whupped.

Now it's time for me to get cranking on my own projects: I have to re-write a script of mine and I'm up for a screenwriting assignment and I still have to light a few more fires around the country to get Bedtime Stories more noticed. It's selling pretty well and it seems that people can now find it in stores but there haven't been hardly any reviews at all. I know I shouldn't complain but the reviews -- be they positive or negative -- are your day in court and I think I deserve that. We'll see.

Life with A, my new girlfriend, is going well. She's a single mom so we have a lot in common. Our blended little family is so cute together. Her daughter is almost two and my kids, especially Chet, love to pick her up and play with her as if she were a puppy. Ava helped me change her diaper the other day. I could tell it was a huge thrill for her. I told her to think of little M as a "real" American Girl doll.

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