Hurray! Barnes & Noble finally came through and put in a big order of the book. I'm told now that there should be no problem finding Bedtime Stories in B&Ns. Thank you all so much for helping convince them that there was an audience out there for my story.

Here at home I've been consumed with taking care of Ava. I thought she had Fifth's Disease, a common childhood ailment. Instead she had strep. For my kidneys that can be a bit dangerous so I'm now paranoid that I have a sore throat. She, on the other hand, luxuriated at home all day watching no less than three pay-per-view movies, Bratz, No Reservations and some update of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves with Amanda Bynes and set in college. I love her to pieces but her tween taste in films drives me nuts. Last weekend she convinced me to take her to College Road Trip with Raven Symone. As a professor of screenwriting I have to tell you my sensibilities were mightily offended. If I had my way the half-dozen credited writers on that piece of junk would be disbarred from the Writer's Guild.

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I just finished an exciting interview with Dr. Drew about Obama's brilliant race speech yesterday. Dr. Drew is not only incisive about sexuality and addiction but he had some very interesting things to say about race and politics as well.

I'm still upset with the big bookstore chains. They don't seem to be stocking my book very well. If you'd like to help, please stop into your local bookstore and make sure that they have plenty of copies. If they don't, don't leave until they order some.

This is Columbia's Spring break and I had been flirting with the idea of getting some sun somewhere. Alas, the kids don't have break now and their mom is in Germany visiting her boyfriend so she couldn't fly up from Georgia and watch them so I"m here in Manhattan in the cold rain. Oh well. Spring is coming and Spring in Manhattan is magical.

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I blogged about the magnificent Obama speech on the HuffingtonPost Today.

And I did a long interview on NPR about Bedtime Stories.

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Everybody's too busy, at least here in New York, so it's boring to complain about how overworked and overstretched and behind schedule I am.

But still...

Damn! It's already Wednesday and all the things on my list to do for Monday still aren't done. It's admissions time at Columbia so tomorrow I'm picking up Chet at 11:30 because school's a half day for teacher's conferences, then I go back to school two hours later for the conference, and then I rush him to a friend's and rush up to Columbia to interview prospective students from 2-4 then I pick the kids back up and then I figure out what it is I'm going to read tonight at the Morningside Bookshop here in Manhattan.

I realize that I haven't left the island in months. I'm aching to go anywhere, it doesn't even have to be warm, but I do close my eyes and dream about walking through hot sand and falling into warm water and letting out a sigh that could be heard all the back here. Still, I'm so itching for a break that I'd almost be happy just going out to the airport and sitting in a plane and pretending. What's especially hard is that the kids had their mid-Winter break around President's Day and my spring break is next week. So for each I've been stuck here.

That said, I still love this city so and the wonders around every corner lift my soul.

So I'll shut up my whining and remember again how lucky I am.

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If anyone in the New York area wants another chance to hear me read I will be at the

Morningside Bookshop
114th and Broadway

Thursday, March 13th and 7pm

I would love to see more folks this time so I don't break down and cry.

Also, don't forget that if you'd like more updates on the goings on of my kids and me please check out my new blog on Babble.com

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What a day! I woke up and read about the huge scandal for this new memoir by a young white woman who'd said she was raised among gang members when in reality she was a Valley Girl. It really strikes a chord with me because I worked so very hard to be honest in my own book.

Then I rushed off to office hours and then taught for three hours and then rushed to the subway to pick up the kids and then we trained right back uptown for my first reading of Bedtime Stories! That was the good news. The bad news was that two people showed up, my Uncle Billy and my Uncle Herman. A bit later my friend Jamal came by and eventually Cheryl with her new baby. Not a single other person was there. True, it was a rainy day, and early, 6pm, but I had so very many friends who'd said they'd stop by. If Cheryl hadn't come with her amazing little baby I think I would have been really sad. We ended up in Chucky Cheese across the street and Chet was bouncing off the walls. It's his absolute favorite place in the world.

I have another reading next week at Morningside Bookshop, 114th and Broadway. I'll spend part of tomorrow emailing around to try to drum up some sort of crowd.

I'm home now and whupped.

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Hello everyone and huge news. The excellent and hugely popular hip parenting website Babble.com asked me to blog there so for updates on what the kids and I are up to please bookmark HERE.

Treyellis.com and the blog here will be more for issues about my book, my movies, my career. My blog on Babble, entitled "FATHER OF THE YEAR" will be the new home for the crazy goings on in my crazy house.

Speaking of the book, I just did an interview with the excellent Farai Chideya and her NPR show "News and Notes." Look for it on her show next week.

And I'm still hearing that many big book chains around the country are still not stocking my book. PLEASE help me out and tell your local Barnes & Noble, Borders or Waldenbooks to get with the program. It's ridiculous that this new book should be so hard to find.

I can't thank you all enough for your support on this little site and please let me know how you like my blog in the big leagues. It is thanks to all of you that Babble asked me over and I am so grateful for all your help.

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