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Lucky Duck

Lucky Duck

by | 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...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

by | 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...
Fall Writing Frenzy 2

Fall Writing Frenzy 2

by | 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...