An Hour A Day

Today is Halloween, but Friday was the day for elementary school Halloween parties. And on Friday I was invited to Mesa Elementary School, ...

I just heard back from Nancy Hinkel, the editor for my MASON DIXON series that will be coming out next year from Random House, with her comm...

Last night I finished teaching a four-week-long Lifelong Learning Class on Children's Book Writing through Boulder Valley Public Schools...

When I write each book, I always think, maybe THIS is the one: the one to be my "breakout" book, my Newbery medal, my best-seller,...

One of my departmental jobs in the Philosophy Department is to serve as our department's Teaching Mentor, which means that I supervise o...

I'm home from a delicious few days speaking at a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) retreat in Iowa, held a...

In the Philosophy through Literature course I'm teaching, focused on the search for utopia, we've now finished reading three visions...