I’ve just been reading about “Daddy and Me,” a small project at Rikers Island prison designed to encourage male inmates to read to their kids on family visit days. It’s not an easy task – the fathers often have to take a literacy class beforehand to learn how to read aloud to a child: nice [...]

I go to the hangar with Tim where he builds his airplane and I build a story.  Who would have thought there are so many similarities with building a plane and a story?  I guess because both are crafting, they just use different tools.  The grinders are grinding and the sparks are flying and compressors [...]

I’m panting toward the finish line in this marketing marathon. Eight book signings down; one to go in this crazy wonderful book launch season for Horse Indian Wolf, the Hidden Pictures of Judy Larson, by Kathleen Kudlinski. I’ve been in libraries, large and small; bookstores, chain and indie; plus a nature museum and the UConn [...]