An Hour A Day

I fly home tonight to Boulder for two weeks, followed by five blissful days at the Children's Literature Association Conference held thi...

I'm back from two days of school visits near Williamsbug, Virginia, arranged by my dear librarian friend Noreen Bernstein, who retired l...

The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote these famous lines: "Margaret, are you grieving/ over Goldengrove unleaving?" As the poem is ...

I've had two huge "I heart DePauw" moments this week. Both of them involved events at which a creative tribe gathered to celeb...

This week saw the publication of my newest children's book baby, Izzy Barr, Running Star , the third book in the Franklin School Friends...

I'm now quite a few months into what I'm calling Act III of my life, that final act where all the plot questions posed in the first ...

I'm back in Colorado for a long weekend. The big excitement here: Kataleya is walking! She's taking those first hesitant, awkward, h...