An Hour A Day

In the mail this week came a fat envelope full of letters from second graders at Sampson Elementary, which I visited during my week of schoo...

I know the secret of happiness. Well, at least the secret of happiness for me: 1) Get up early and write on the couch with my mug of Swiss...

I'm writing this in the Houston airport, after an exhausting, exhilarating week of author visits to ten schools in the book-crazed Cypre...

I'm in Houston for a week of school visits in the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District: ten schools in five days, focusing main...

After a month of what other people have been calling my "retirement" and I have been calling my transition to life as a full-time ...

Five days in to my week in Indiana, I've fallen back in love, as hopelessly as I did the first time. But who couldn't love a place...

I leave today for a week in my beloved Indiana. I'll spend four nights in Greencastle, staying with my former housemate Julia and her da...