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Article: Poseidon Adventure:Mermaid pitches for the Norfolk Tides Poseidon Adventure: Mermaid pitches for Tides.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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IT'S THE YEAR of the Mermaid to honor the 10th anniversary of the city symbol, and up till now, I thought I'd done about every nutty thing a children's author can do to promote mermaids for charity. When I found myself on the pitcher's mound for the Norfolk Tides recently, it hit me that this year mermania is going to be magnified, times 10.
As a writer I've experienced a whole lot of things that should be fiction but turned out to just be my life. Like last month I took my kids to the park. I was fresh from the shower. A little girl came up and started staring at me, bug-eyed. She looked at my van with the mermaid picture on the side and asked, in a stage ...