Years ago when I decided to file for divorce I struggled with the potential and probable consequences of my course of action. I knew my marriage was over but I also knew that by leaving my husband I was in effect leaving his extended family. I had loved the time I had spent with his aunts and uncles, his cousins, his siblings, his parents and of course his grandparents.
I had heard about "Grandma and Grandpa Vizas" well before I met them. Grandma Vizas in particular was notorious within the family. She was described as formidable, brilliant, opinionated and rigid in her views of proper social conduct. She was loved but she was also feared. So of course I was nervous when I first met her. It didn't help that one of the first questions she asked me was if I was a good cook. I realized that she saw this as an important skill for a woman who was about to become a wife to have and I considered lying to her. Unfortunately I didn't have the chance because my then fiance was there to hear the question and burst out laughing. I was, at that time, completely useless in the kitchen while my betrothed was practically a gourmet in the most literal sense of the word. Still, I tried to endear myself to her. It was for her benefit that I and all my bridesmaids marched up to the make-up counter at Macy's shortly before the ceremony and asked one of the cosmeticians to cover up the tattoos that would otherwise be exposed by our low-back dresses.
It was Grandma Vizas that told me about the family history. She could trace her family line back to pre-revolutionary war days. She was related to both Quincy and John Adams as well as the man who designed the first plane to successfully break the so-called sound barrier. When I got married she asked if I would sew a button from the revolutionary war uniform worn by one of her ancestors into the hem of my dress. I eagerly agreed although I was terrified that the button would get lost as I whirled across the dance floor. It didn't (thank God).
But there was a darker side of her family too. I was told that she had been disinherited when she dared to marry someone who was Greek (that's what counted as ethnic diversity in the family). Yet she refused to make prejudice a part of her life. For my birthday she sent me handmade place-mats with little Stars Of David and Torahs on them. It made me laugh but I understood what she was trying to say. She wanted me to know that she supported me and respected my religion and heritage although it was very different from her own. I still have those place-mats and I drag them out every Hanukkah. They mean the world to me.
I assumed that when the divorce was finalized I would never hear from either her or her husband again. Instead they sent me a card with a handwritten note from both of them. "You are in our thoughts," they said, "and you will always be our granddaughter."
I cried when I got that card. Since then I've shared a Thanksgiving with them and talked to them on the phone. Grandma Vizas went to her local library and insisted that they carry all of my books. She was good to me.
This month she passed away unexpectedly. The memorial service is tomorrow. I can still see her sitting by my side asking about my cooking skills. I miss her but I trust that she is at peace. She will never be forgotten.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
OMG!
The other day I put my ten year old on a Southwest flight going from LA to San Jose (an hour fight). He was going to visit his grandparents for a few days. The rules are that as the parent of an unaccompanied minor you have to stay in the airport until your child's flight actually takes off. So after he boarded I stood by the window and watched the plane as it slowly pulled away from the Gate. I then watched as a large Mylar balloon floated down onto the runway and then, in a blink of an eye, got sucked into the engine. And then the plane proceeded to head toward the main runway.
For a brief second I froze. I'm not an engineer but I have to assume that Mylars shouldn't be inside the engine of a plane. I rushed over to tell the attendant. She immediately radioed the pilot and the plane was turned around and brought right back to the gate where they did indeed find bits of Mylar and string threaded through the engine. They helicoptered some people in to check everything out and once everything was in working order the plane turned around again and went to San Jose. The whole thing kind of freaked me out. Clearly the balloon was problematic otherwise the airline wouldn't have made such a big production about fixing it but of course they wouldn't have done any of it if I hadn't seen what NO ONE FROM THE AIRLINE NOTICED and reported it.
But that said I'm sure that if they had taken off the pilot would have realized the problem quickly. They would have safely landed somewhere and the engine would have been fixed then. I don't think I prevented a major crash. I just minimized a potential danger.
But here's where things go from weird to infuriating. Apparently they made an announcement on board when they turned the plane around explaining that they had to check the engine or something. This, perhaps understandably, frightened my son. When they got back to the gate he asked if he could get off. I have no doubt that he was anxious and upset and that he may have expressed his request in a less than ideal manner. But the flight attendant responded by telling him that, "the only way you can get off this plane is in handcuffs."
Okay, seriously? I pay $50 extra for my son to fly as an unaccompanied minor. Considering the length of the flight that is a pretty hefty babysitting fee. I'd like to think that my money at least buys my son some common courtesy. Passengers who are nervous about flying freak out on planes all the time. A flight attendant should know how to deal with these people. They should be soothing and reassuring, not threatening; particularly if their passenger is a scared ten year old child who is upset because of an announced engine problem. I don't normally write letters of complaint and I have always had very good experiences with Southwest in the past but this is simply unacceptable.
Basically I'm just pissed off.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
For a brief second I froze. I'm not an engineer but I have to assume that Mylars shouldn't be inside the engine of a plane. I rushed over to tell the attendant. She immediately radioed the pilot and the plane was turned around and brought right back to the gate where they did indeed find bits of Mylar and string threaded through the engine. They helicoptered some people in to check everything out and once everything was in working order the plane turned around again and went to San Jose. The whole thing kind of freaked me out. Clearly the balloon was problematic otherwise the airline wouldn't have made such a big production about fixing it but of course they wouldn't have done any of it if I hadn't seen what NO ONE FROM THE AIRLINE NOTICED and reported it.
But that said I'm sure that if they had taken off the pilot would have realized the problem quickly. They would have safely landed somewhere and the engine would have been fixed then. I don't think I prevented a major crash. I just minimized a potential danger.
But here's where things go from weird to infuriating. Apparently they made an announcement on board when they turned the plane around explaining that they had to check the engine or something. This, perhaps understandably, frightened my son. When they got back to the gate he asked if he could get off. I have no doubt that he was anxious and upset and that he may have expressed his request in a less than ideal manner. But the flight attendant responded by telling him that, "the only way you can get off this plane is in handcuffs."
Okay, seriously? I pay $50 extra for my son to fly as an unaccompanied minor. Considering the length of the flight that is a pretty hefty babysitting fee. I'd like to think that my money at least buys my son some common courtesy. Passengers who are nervous about flying freak out on planes all the time. A flight attendant should know how to deal with these people. They should be soothing and reassuring, not threatening; particularly if their passenger is a scared ten year old child who is upset because of an announced engine problem. I don't normally write letters of complaint and I have always had very good experiences with Southwest in the past but this is simply unacceptable.
Basically I'm just pissed off.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Friday, August 21, 2009
FINALLY!!!!
The reprint of the first book in my Sophie series, Sex, Murder And A Double Latte is FINALLY available to order on Amazon! As successful as Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss has been I can't help feeling that it could have done even better if the first book in the series had been available when it came out. It was difficult convincing my publisher of that and in the end it was the independent booksellers who took up my case that made the difference (I particularly need to thank The Capitola Book Cafe and Booksforblackwomen.com). I don't really understand why my publisher was so reticent to reprint Sex, Murder since the first few printings did so well and it still is a top selling audiobooks (it's one of iTunes top ten bestselling "romance" audiobooks in the UK, France, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, Spain and Sweden). But what I do understand is that if my publisher is going to continue to have the book available this latest print run is going to have to have a very good sell through.
So. If you don't have a copy of Sex, Murder And A Double Latte, if you want a new copy, if you want to buy your girlfriend a gift that will make her smile either go to indiebound.com (my saviors!) or Amazon and with your purchase let my publishing house know that all the Sophie books need to be available to readers everywhere. And please encourage your friends and family to do that same. Or you could just go to your favorite independent bookseller and order it at the store. If they tell you its out of print tell them about the most recent reprint.
Oh, and if you have a chance to order it this weekend it will be the best birthday gift anyone has ever gotten me...no joke.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
So. If you don't have a copy of Sex, Murder And A Double Latte, if you want a new copy, if you want to buy your girlfriend a gift that will make her smile either go to indiebound.com (my saviors!) or Amazon and with your purchase let my publishing house know that all the Sophie books need to be available to readers everywhere. And please encourage your friends and family to do that same. Or you could just go to your favorite independent bookseller and order it at the store. If they tell you its out of print tell them about the most recent reprint.
Oh, and if you have a chance to order it this weekend it will be the best birthday gift anyone has ever gotten me...no joke.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Monday, August 17, 2009
And The Winner Is...
It's official. The contest is over and the winners have been chosen!
Third prize goes to Charity Messer! Charity posted reviews all over the internet and created and posted a book trailer on Youtube! Charity will be getting a $100 gift card from Starbucks. Sophie will be jealous!
Second prize goes to Jessica Rogers! If you haven't seen Jessica's booktrailer on Youtube yet this is the time to check it out. She clearly put a lot of work into it. Her reviews which were posted, tweeted and blogged were well written and fun to read. Jessica will get $200 worth of gift certificates from CocoaBella Chocolates. Congratulations Jessica, you really earned this!
First prize goes to Cara Purcell. Cara entered the contest on the 13th of August. And while she waited a while to enter she certainly made up for her delay by her tremendous effort. In one day she racked up twenty-three entries!!! Twenty-three! She posted on every site from Amazon to Albris to Good Reads to...well, I could go on and on. And then she topped it all off with a book trailer! Cara wins a $300 gift card to Sephora. Not only is Sophie jealous but so am I and (undoubtedly) so are the majority of the women of the world.
Now for the grand prize. A Labor Day weekend trip to San Francisco!!! The winner will be flown into San Francisco's airport and will be picked up by me. I'll drive the winner to The Parc 55 Hotel and we will spend the weekend visiting Sophie's favorite haunts.
And the winner is (drum roll please)...................
DANEEN BAIRD
My son (with his eyes closed) chose Daneen's name from "the magic chest" this morning. Daneen is the creator, writer and editor of the truly fabulous website Spoiled Pretty. She entered the contest by both interviewing me and holding a contest on her site in which her readers could win a signed copy of Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss. The contest was a stunning success. Daneen I am so excited to have the chance to show you around my favorite city!
The gift cards will be mailed out by the end of the week and Daneen and I will work out the details of her impending flight.
Thank you all for participating. I am very much aware that the success of my latest book is largely due to your efforts and I dearly hope you will continue to tell people about the Sophie books. As always her fate is in your hands. I really hope to have the chance to meet all of you one of these days, perhaps on the next book tour.
In summery, you all rock!
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Third prize goes to Charity Messer! Charity posted reviews all over the internet and created and posted a book trailer on Youtube! Charity will be getting a $100 gift card from Starbucks. Sophie will be jealous!
Second prize goes to Jessica Rogers! If you haven't seen Jessica's booktrailer on Youtube yet this is the time to check it out. She clearly put a lot of work into it. Her reviews which were posted, tweeted and blogged were well written and fun to read. Jessica will get $200 worth of gift certificates from CocoaBella Chocolates. Congratulations Jessica, you really earned this!
First prize goes to Cara Purcell. Cara entered the contest on the 13th of August. And while she waited a while to enter she certainly made up for her delay by her tremendous effort. In one day she racked up twenty-three entries!!! Twenty-three! She posted on every site from Amazon to Albris to Good Reads to...well, I could go on and on. And then she topped it all off with a book trailer! Cara wins a $300 gift card to Sephora. Not only is Sophie jealous but so am I and (undoubtedly) so are the majority of the women of the world.
Now for the grand prize. A Labor Day weekend trip to San Francisco!!! The winner will be flown into San Francisco's airport and will be picked up by me. I'll drive the winner to The Parc 55 Hotel and we will spend the weekend visiting Sophie's favorite haunts.
And the winner is (drum roll please)...................
DANEEN BAIRD
My son (with his eyes closed) chose Daneen's name from "the magic chest" this morning. Daneen is the creator, writer and editor of the truly fabulous website Spoiled Pretty. She entered the contest by both interviewing me and holding a contest on her site in which her readers could win a signed copy of Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss. The contest was a stunning success. Daneen I am so excited to have the chance to show you around my favorite city!
The gift cards will be mailed out by the end of the week and Daneen and I will work out the details of her impending flight.
Thank you all for participating. I am very much aware that the success of my latest book is largely due to your efforts and I dearly hope you will continue to tell people about the Sophie books. As always her fate is in your hands. I really hope to have the chance to meet all of you one of these days, perhaps on the next book tour.
In summery, you all rock!
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Last Chance To Win A Sophie Themed Trip To SF!!!
Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. It’s been a turbulent week filled with some major highs and lows. The best high point was the signing at CocoaBella. The only promotion of that event took place on this blog and on my Facebook and Twitter pages. Actually that’s not true. Many of you also blogged and tweeted the event and our combined efforts made for a fantastic turn out. Thank you!!!!
As you know, Saturday is August fifteenth: the last day of the Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss contest. If you want to enter you have to post a review of Lust, Loathing and you have to email me BEFORE you post the review so I can ensure that no one can take credit for another person’s work. You can post your review on any bookseller’s website or on your own personal blog. I realize that there can be a delay between the time a customer posts a review on Amazon and Barnes & Noble et al. and the moment that it actually shows up online so as long as you email me before midnight Pacific Time on Saturday to let me know you submitted the review and I can find it online by the end of Monday your entry counts.
Remember the top prize is a Labor Day weekend trip to San Francisco so be sure to get your name in the hat!
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
As you know, Saturday is August fifteenth: the last day of the Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss contest. If you want to enter you have to post a review of Lust, Loathing and you have to email me BEFORE you post the review so I can ensure that no one can take credit for another person’s work. You can post your review on any bookseller’s website or on your own personal blog. I realize that there can be a delay between the time a customer posts a review on Amazon and Barnes & Noble et al. and the moment that it actually shows up online so as long as you email me before midnight Pacific Time on Saturday to let me know you submitted the review and I can find it online by the end of Monday your entry counts.
Remember the top prize is a Labor Day weekend trip to San Francisco so be sure to get your name in the hat!
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Friday, August 07, 2009
Let's Talk Over Espresso And Chocolate
Tomorrow at 2:00 I will be speaking at CocoaBella Chocolates at their San Francisco Union Street store (check here for location information). There will be free tastes of chocolate, free cups of espresso, Sophie Katz Limited Edition Boxes(of chocolate) available for purchase and of course I'll be there reading from Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss, signing books and chatting with friends and readers. It should be a great event. But I'm nervous.
See the guy who was going to be promoting this thing went to Belize on vacation last month...and decided to never come back. No, I'm not kidding. That's exactly how it went down. He simply declined to get on the plane that was going to take him back to the States. Apparently he's writing the great American novel and I honestly wish him the best of luck.
And yet.
I don't think the people on CocoaBella's mailing list were ever notified. To my knowledge fliers were never made. In fact as far as I can tell the only promotion of this event took place on my Facebook and Twitter page.
CoocaBella has been wonderful to Sophie and they are the principal sponsor of the Sophie-Katz-San-Francisco-Trip-Contest. Most importantly they have some of the most fabulously decadent chocolates I have ever tasted in my life (and that includes the chocolates I tasted while visiting Italy, Switzerland and France). I'd really like to introduce you to their store. So if you or your Bay Area friends like Sophie and/or chocolate and espresso come on by. Trust me when I tell you we won't be running out of samples ; )
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
See the guy who was going to be promoting this thing went to Belize on vacation last month...and decided to never come back. No, I'm not kidding. That's exactly how it went down. He simply declined to get on the plane that was going to take him back to the States. Apparently he's writing the great American novel and I honestly wish him the best of luck.
And yet.
I don't think the people on CocoaBella's mailing list were ever notified. To my knowledge fliers were never made. In fact as far as I can tell the only promotion of this event took place on my Facebook and Twitter page.
CoocaBella has been wonderful to Sophie and they are the principal sponsor of the Sophie-Katz-San-Francisco-Trip-Contest. Most importantly they have some of the most fabulously decadent chocolates I have ever tasted in my life (and that includes the chocolates I tasted while visiting Italy, Switzerland and France). I'd really like to introduce you to their store. So if you or your Bay Area friends like Sophie and/or chocolate and espresso come on by. Trust me when I tell you we won't be running out of samples ; )
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Monday, August 03, 2009
Praying Like Galileo
Before I get into this post let me remind my Bay Area readers that the chocolate tasting/book signing will be this Saturday at 2:00 at Cocoabella Chocolates' San Francisco Union Street store. Bring all your Sophie books for me to sign and come get your free taste of chocolate decadence. Check my website for details.
Okay, enough of the marketing stuff. This has been a turbulent time for me and when things get bumpy in my life I tend to turn to my comfort food: books. Specifically books that I have read before and loved. Rereading old favorites is like wrapping myself up in a security blanket and eating Ben & Jerry's from the carton. Before I sit down to write my own novel I read a chapter from NickHornby's A Long Way Down or Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. When I wake up in the morning and lie down to sleep at night I read from Simon Singh's Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe. While Hornby and Rice provide me with literary inspiration it's in Singh's nonfiction work that I find the most emotional comfort. Singh's detailed history of the development of scientific thought and human understanding of the cosmos helps me realize that I'm part of something much bigger than myself. For me it's akin to praying.
I know that sounds dramatic and possibly a little weird but I've never understood the conflict between science and religion. I understand the resentment scientists feel towards institutionalized religions that have fought to suppress ideas and theories that aren't easily reconciled with their doctrine. I also understand the bitterness felt by religious individuals who know that their beliefs are looked upon with derision by more than a few people in the scientific community. But as for an actual logical conflict between a belief in God and the pursuit of revolutionary scientific ideas...no, that I don't understand at all. To me the very fact that the universe can be understood strengthens my spiritual convictions. I mean think about it! Through mathematical equations we can predict the movement of the planets, moons and stars. We can look at our own genetic make-up and understand our connection to all the other species on earth. We can figure out the age of a rock by studying its carbons. The universe, this massive thing with no perceivable consciousness follows RULES. The parting of the Red Sea is a cool and all but God shouldn't have to break his own rules in order to impress us. The very fact that there ARE rules should be recognized as a miracle. As fantasy writer Terry Pratchett continually points out in his Tiffany Aching books: Something doesn't stop being magic just because you can explain how it's done.
And as I read Singh's book I can't help but smile as I come across scientist after scientist who felt the same way. When Johannes Kepler mathematically proved that the planets actually orbited the sun in ellipses rather than perfect circles (the accepted view at the time was that everything orbited the earth in perfect circles within circles as originally explained by Ptolemy) he reportedly shouted "O, Almighty god, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!" He was learning the rules of the universe, learning its language and because of that he felt he was establishing a much closer connection to his God.
This morning my son came into my room as I was reading Big Bang and on a whim I started reading aloud to him. You could see the excitement in his eyes as I read to him about the value of developing theories that can be tested and examined even if they do end up being wrong. By the time I had read three pages he was shouting out ideas of his own. "Mom, think about this!" he demanded. "If we could develop a super telescope and put it on some rocky planet hundreds of thousands of light years from earth we could see the prehistoric animals that used to roam our planet! We could study them!"
I realize that the likelihood of us ever being able to develop a telescope that powerful or place one on a planet that far away is highly unlikely but I love that he's thinking that way. He's considering the possibilities of our universe. It's like my son has learned how to pray.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
Okay, enough of the marketing stuff. This has been a turbulent time for me and when things get bumpy in my life I tend to turn to my comfort food: books. Specifically books that I have read before and loved. Rereading old favorites is like wrapping myself up in a security blanket and eating Ben & Jerry's from the carton. Before I sit down to write my own novel I read a chapter from NickHornby's A Long Way Down or Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. When I wake up in the morning and lie down to sleep at night I read from Simon Singh's Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe. While Hornby and Rice provide me with literary inspiration it's in Singh's nonfiction work that I find the most emotional comfort. Singh's detailed history of the development of scientific thought and human understanding of the cosmos helps me realize that I'm part of something much bigger than myself. For me it's akin to praying.
I know that sounds dramatic and possibly a little weird but I've never understood the conflict between science and religion. I understand the resentment scientists feel towards institutionalized religions that have fought to suppress ideas and theories that aren't easily reconciled with their doctrine. I also understand the bitterness felt by religious individuals who know that their beliefs are looked upon with derision by more than a few people in the scientific community. But as for an actual logical conflict between a belief in God and the pursuit of revolutionary scientific ideas...no, that I don't understand at all. To me the very fact that the universe can be understood strengthens my spiritual convictions. I mean think about it! Through mathematical equations we can predict the movement of the planets, moons and stars. We can look at our own genetic make-up and understand our connection to all the other species on earth. We can figure out the age of a rock by studying its carbons. The universe, this massive thing with no perceivable consciousness follows RULES. The parting of the Red Sea is a cool and all but God shouldn't have to break his own rules in order to impress us. The very fact that there ARE rules should be recognized as a miracle. As fantasy writer Terry Pratchett continually points out in his Tiffany Aching books: Something doesn't stop being magic just because you can explain how it's done.
And as I read Singh's book I can't help but smile as I come across scientist after scientist who felt the same way. When Johannes Kepler mathematically proved that the planets actually orbited the sun in ellipses rather than perfect circles (the accepted view at the time was that everything orbited the earth in perfect circles within circles as originally explained by Ptolemy) he reportedly shouted "O, Almighty god, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!" He was learning the rules of the universe, learning its language and because of that he felt he was establishing a much closer connection to his God.
This morning my son came into my room as I was reading Big Bang and on a whim I started reading aloud to him. You could see the excitement in his eyes as I read to him about the value of developing theories that can be tested and examined even if they do end up being wrong. By the time I had read three pages he was shouting out ideas of his own. "Mom, think about this!" he demanded. "If we could develop a super telescope and put it on some rocky planet hundreds of thousands of light years from earth we could see the prehistoric animals that used to roam our planet! We could study them!"
I realize that the likelihood of us ever being able to develop a telescope that powerful or place one on a planet that far away is highly unlikely but I love that he's thinking that way. He's considering the possibilities of our universe. It's like my son has learned how to pray.
Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
The Sophie Katz Murder Mystery Series,
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING
Order LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS on Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com today!
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