Fired Up
Fires are for reading by, chatting and napping by, cooking over, adding light to the night and warming up winter. That in 2021 U.S. citizens, including elected school board members in not far enough away Spotsylvania County, VA, promoted burning books they don’t...
To the Lighthouse
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
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...
Bookshelves and Blog
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...
COVID HAIKU
Been volunteering with the Medical Reserve Corps in Virginia for a month or so and I have developed a specialty in parking lot management. Until I’m fully vaccinated I’m happier working outside anyway and it has been an upper seeing happy and relieved...ME on Twitter
OK, #amquerying writers and #writingcommunity, here goes. To celebrate 5K followers, for the next 24 hours, anyone who RTs this tweet and is also a follower will be eligible. By tomorrow EOD I'll choose one lucky follower for a free query crit! Help spread the word!
Loved eavesdropping on the @sljournal #sljdayofdialog conversation with @dbhiguera this morning. Timely, inspiring and so funny, too! You can catch the free replay soon. #kidlit