Sad news today, for those who liked or loved the works of children's author Tomie dePaola. He died yesterday, apparently from compilations following surgery after a fall.
It's so weird how I learned this, not ten minutes after coming across the files containing my materials for the show we did with him and Mother Dolores Hart at the Abbey a few summers ago. He was so nice to get to know for a few days, and we all had a fine time putting that show (a play with music) together.
I was literally just transferring a bunch of files from one drive to another, saw the folder containing my materials, and hadn't thought about that in a couple of years. A few minutes later, someone told me he died.