This week on Rhythm of the Home, I’m writing about the benefits of kids interrupting during read-alouds. I’ve written about this before, because I’m such a fan of talking about books. If you want to read more, there’s a post about talking about literature in general here, and one about talking about it in a [...]

I have another little essay up at Rhythm of the Home today, this one on my fondness for my kitchen table. Originally I’d planned to have my posts there appear along with posts here; I’d hoped to write a series on offering writing feedback to kids in this space in January. Alas, I haven’t yet [...]

Wow, two posts in three days! Imagine that! This one is just a little promo piece, to tell you that I’m guest-posting at the Rhythm of the Home blog this month, and my first mini-essay is up. It’s a weeper about having my oldest home from college for Christmas. Hope you’ll pop over and read.

I only need reading glasses when I wear my contacts. Somehow I feel compelled to explain that to people. I don’t need reading glasses, not really. Even though I’m 47. Like that’s something to brag about. Of course, I wear my contacts all day long, so the reading glasses find their way on my face fairly often. [...]

Feedback on my book’s introduction from one of my longtime reader-friends. You may have read this post already, as I shared it as a guest writer on the Spilling Ink Creativity Blog. I thought I’d post it here as well, in case some of you missed it, and so I can link it with my [...]

Time for me to mail off books! Congratulations to the following winners-chosen by random number generator–who will be receiving a paperback copy of my new book Workshops Work! in the mail: Anamaria, Debbie, Wendy, Sandra and JJ. I’ll be contacting you via email for your address information. It’s such a thrill for me to send my book out [...]