Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]

I love to write poetry with children. At a super fun after-school workshop with K-5th graders at Tabor Community Center, I chose spiders as a topic. I took the children on a spider walk (hunt) outside.  We came inside and did a group warm up by building a yarn/string spider web between us. As each [...]

Apologia In this spot My post is not. But stay tuned, friends – Writer’s block Always ends. So take a look Another time. You’ll find I’ve blogged – And not in rhyme.

When we decided to take photographs of our desks, I thought, Oh no. I don’t have a desk. At least, none of my own. See? That’s the computer I share with three other people. Now, I get to use it more than the other three, but I’m booted off with regularity. And you notice all [...]

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It all starts with a trip!  This is near the Gold Bug Mine in California.  It is a mine that has been sealed up because it is not safe anymore.  Probably wasn’t too safe when it was getting dug either.  I wonder how much gold they found here?  What if . . . ? And the story [...]