Betty Birney’s Blog

Thanks to an eagle eyed friend named Allison, yesterday I found out that Humphrey has made it to PEOPLE magazine. I got her email while I was standing on line in the supermarket so I was able to get it then and there. There’s an article on the wife of baseball player Curt Schilling and her new book about her son’s autism. And there she is, bless her heart, reading THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, to her son. They shot the thing in a mirror so it’s not that clear, but if you know the first cover (the blue one, not the new red one), you’d recognize it!

Maybe someday Humphrey will make the cover … but this time it’s Sandra Bullock. (She’s on the cover of every magazine.)  The April 5 edition, p. 121. When you’re online in the supermarket this week, you can check it out.

Pretty cool – a hamster in People.

 I should take this excellent advice from England!

March madness: I’m not talking about basketball … I’m talking about living life like a hamster spinning on a hamster wheel!

What have I been doing lately?

1) answering fan mail
2) writing and rewriting Humphrey book 7
3)answering fan mail
4) writing and rewriting the first of the younger Humphrey books, aimed at kids 5-7
5)answering fan mail
6)negotiating with agents and lawyers on two potential TV series (one Humphrey, one not)
7)dealing with ridiculous time-devouring tech problems with my Blackberry (finally healed) and printer (finally healed)
8)neglecting everything else, like fun, friends and family

I’m HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY that Humphrey makes so many people HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY. But I still haven’t found that balance.

I miss my travels to schools throughout the country, but I traveled so much over the past few years that I’m only now getting used to the fact that it’s Sunday and I don’t have to catch a plane! I recently drove a friend to Burbank airport on a Sunday afternoon and I was amazed to think that I wasn’t the one getting on a plane. However, I will be traveling to the UK in August/September and next March and that makes me unsqueakably happy.

Okay, so I have nothing to complain about. I need to mind my head!