by me | May 12, 2023 | Environment, Outdoors, Richmond VA, writing for children
Glad to have this out in the world in the May/June edition of Cricket. Seen this on the James River many an evening.
by me | Jun 12, 2022 | contests, Environment, Humor, writing, writing for children
I reworked an earlier piece for the new #KidLitVibes contest run by a very engaged and generous PB critique group. I spun the wheel and got lucky, literally, as my word. I wasn’t going to enter as nothing had occurred to me, until I went for an evening stroll...
by me | Oct 31, 2021 | Books, Family, Home, writing, writing for children
I made it to the lighthouse on a recent family beach visit, decades after I wrote the best chapter of my college honors thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall was more in keeping with the reading list for the trip as...
by me | Oct 3, 2021 | Holidays, Humor, writing, writing for children
So Lydia Lukidis and Kaitlyn Sanchez are at it again with their Fall Writing Frenzy contest for children’s writers. Pick a photo from their stash and get inspired to write something somehow related that’s under 200 words. The above is not that...
by me | Sep 21, 2021 | Books, current non-events, Home, writing, writing for children
A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get to sleep, so I counted bookshelves instead of sheep (shout out to Kate Wolf’s line, “Countin’ troubles, ‘stead of countin’ sheep.”) I have no idea what number I came up with, but it was in...
by me | Apr 24, 2014 | business, city living, current events, food, Humor, Quirky Richmond, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond VA, Travel, writing, writing for children
I don’t pretend to be a food writer though I have tweeted more than 12,000 times and most have involved either putting food or my foot in my mouth or putting words together halfway wittily which is different from half-witted. Then there’s my...
