At a recent school visit, I spoke about my journey as an author, and how it started long before I ever knew that I wanted to write. I talked about when I was in school, and how impatiently I'd wait for the book club orders to come in ( Read more... )

For the 100th day of school, my 5 year old's kindergarten class wrote about what they would be when they were 100 years old. What wonderful answers they all had! Some children had big dreams like being President, a rock star, or a superhero. Others wrote about being a grandpa or a teacher or having their own house with a dog, an iguana, and three ( Read more... )

This week has been a whirlwind for me. I've attended five Thanksgiving feasts, one Thanksgiving class play, and one Tuneful Turkey performance. Ummm... do you think Dominos delivers on Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Older Boy: PJ was blushing in the car line today ( Read more... )

Wow. It has been a whirlwind weekend. But my giggle of the week happened yesterday. We had some large pine trees in the back that unfortunately had to be removed. A mighty wood chipper made short work of the branches and trunks, spewing the wood chips into the kid's play area. With hindsight, we could have had them move the wood chipper around a ( Read more... )

The Southern Breeze Fall Conference was everything it should be... inspiring, instructive, illuminating. Paul Fleischman's keynote speech had me running home to encourage my kids to start playing more with their food. Thank you so much to the organizers of the conference, the wonderful speakers, and the attendees, who each reminded us what a ( Read more... )

Remember Miss Viola Swamp in the wonderful picture book, Miss Nelson is Missing ( Read more... )

THUD ( Read more... )

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Week, I thought I'd share a pirate story (well, sort of ( Read more... )

DH is in San Francisco at a trade show. He gave the usual admonition to me to 'behave', while telling the kids to 'take good care of me ( Read more... )