If you're in/near NYC

This Tuesday 11/22/11 Reading in NYC with contributors Jen Silverman and Ayun Halliday.
This is not a Short Bus event, but we'll both be at this reading for the Museum of Motherhood!

Queens, NY - Free April Event!

-at the New York Hall of Science- Adults are invited to attend a panel discussion and Q&A on raising children who are on the autism spectrum. A book signing for My Baby Rides the Short Bus will follow the event. The panel of experts includes authors, educators, and parents of children with autism. Sunday, April 10th, 2 p.m. Free. Registration required, please follow this link: http://www.nysci.org/visit/events/event/autismpanel Panelists include: * Jennifer Silverman, co-editor of My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities. * Sharis Ingram, contributor to My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities. * Carol Greenburg, a mother with Asperger's syndrome who runs a special education consulting group. * Liane Kupferberg Carter, writer for the Huffington Post and the New York Times parenting blog Motherlode, and a mother of an adult son on the autism spectrum.

Short Bus is nominated for an award-please vote!

http://specialchildren.about.com/b/2011/02/11/vote-for-favorite-special-needs-memoir.htm

washington dc saturday

A Book Event and Community Gathering for Parents, Caregivers, and Friends of Kids with Disabilities

Saturday, December 4 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Center for Community Change, 1536 U St NW, Washington DC

My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities is an anthology of articles written by parents about the unique joys and challenges of their families.

Light dinner provided -- bring a dish to share if possible. Event space is wheelchair accessible.

The book's co-editor and contributor Jennifer Silverman will be joined by local parents, writers, and activists Tricia Theis Rogalski (http://unringingthebell.typepad.com/), Jane Andrews, Krista Hanson and Burke Stansbury in reading and speaking about their experience of raising kids with disabilities.

For more information, contact Krista: kristaleehanson@gmail.com

Co-sponsored by Empower DC and the DC Childcare Collective

Denver! Boulder!

Readings this weekend:

Saturday 11/13 in Denver at 7 p.m.

27 Social Centre, 2727 W 27th Ave

and Sunday 11/14 in Boulder at 2 p.m.

Left Hand Books, 1200 Pearl Street #10

both with Amy Saxon Bosworth and Jennifer Silverman

Western Mass. Reading

Next Saturday, 11/6, Reading at Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA. 2 p.m. with Short Bus' Maria June, Jennifer Silverman and Kyra Anderson (Gravity Pulls You In).

Food For Thought Books

upcoming events!

Look for us doing readings in Amherst, MA 11/6, Denver 11/13 & Boulder 11/14. Details forthcoming!

New review up at Queens Mamas blog

Read it here!

My Baby Rides the Short Bus

Thanks to Support for Special Needs for the five days of features on My Baby Rides the Short Bus!
My Baby Rides the Short Bus

Op-ed piece by a Short Bus editor

Written by Jennifer Silverman for Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/opinion-ny-s-likely-new-autism-insurance-law-lacks-clarity-1.2135131

NYC Reading 8/7!

Portland was fantastic, thanks to all of you who came and especially to Chloe Eudaly for organizing the event.

Next up: NYC, at Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan (172 Allen St between Stanton and Rivington), Saturday August 7th at 7 p.m. with:

• Sharis Ingram
• Jennifer Silverman
• Shannon Des Roches Rosa
• Jennifer Byde Myers

A few copies of our first printing can still be found online, and our second printing (yay!) will be avaialble by September.

portland 7/24 and NYC 8/7/10!

My Baby Rides the Short Bus contributors will be reading in two fabulous venues this summer!

First, come hear us in the Pacific Northwest with contributor/hostess Chloe Eudaly of Portland's Reading Frenzy zine emporium (www.readingfrenzy.com) along with Kerry Cohen, Mitzi Waltz, Nina Packebush and co-editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot Saturday July 24th, 7 p.m. at p:ear (338 NW 6th Ave.).

If you're in the NYC area, we'll be at Bluestockings bookstore (www.bluestockings.com) on Saturday, August 7th at 7 p.m. (172 Allen Street) with visiting west coast contributors Shannon Des Roches Rosa and Jennifer Byde Myers plus Sharis Ingram & (co-editor) Jennifer Silverman to commemorate our second printing.

Ally Jeremy Adam Smith has an interesting essay up at Mothering Magazine about making sure to include kids with disabilities and their parents and universal design--and a shout out for My Baby Rides the Short Bus. Read it here: http://mothering.com/jeremysmith/uncategorized/seventeenth-way-for-dads-to-change-the-world-include-kids-with-disabilities

summer news/events

Exciting things are underfoot here at My Baby Rides the Short Bus. We're headed towards a second printing later this summer. Many thanks to Maya Gottfried, who was instrumental in getting us to this point and has a new, beautiful children's book Our Farm --- please check out her website http://www.ourfarmbook.com and get yourself a copy. Its proceeds benefit Farm Sanctuary (http://www.farmsanctuary.org/).

Our Short Bus, Long Road tour will be in Portland OR July 24th and NYC August 7th, details to be posted soon.

Our most recent radio interview with contributor Sharis Ingram and co-editor Jennifer Silverman is archived on the WNYC page for the Brian Lehrer Show (http://www.wnyc.org/).

Feel free to email us with any questions at shortbusbook@yahoo.com! Hope to hear from you.

Olympia, WA-May 22nd!

The Short Bus, Long Road Tour will be here on May 22nd:
5:30 p.m.
Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave. SE
www.trlib.org

Asheville, NC-May 8th!

with co-editor Jennifer Silverman and guest Cheri Brackett (Gravity Pulls You In). Saturday, May 8th at 7 p.m., Firestorm Cafe and Books, 48 Commerce Street http://firestormcafe.com/

Boston Reading for My Baby Rides the Short Bus!

with contributors Sharis Ingram, Ziva Mann, Stephanie Sleeper

and co-editor Jennifer Silverman

Sunday, April 25th at 2 p.m.

Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston

Short Bus, Long Road

It's been a long time since our last update, but we've been busy reading and presenting at places in Seattle, San Francisco/Berkeley, the Left Forum in NYC, and upcoming dates in Boston (April 25th, Lucy Parsons Center, 2pm), Asheville, NC (May 8, Firestorm, evening) and Olympia, WA (May 22, Olympia Timberland Library, 5:30 pm). If you have a suggestion for a place for us to visit next, please email us at shortbusbook@yahoo.com.

with most sincere apologies to author kathy briccetti

who we accidentally published in the book as kathy bricetti! kathy is a wonderful writer who will be welcoming her own book in the spring: Blood Strangers: A Memoir. http://www.kathybriccetti.com/

audio file of nyc reading

http://www.radio4all.net/files/dan_vea@yahoo.com/1999-1-shortbus_bluestockings_14november09.mp3