An Hour A Day

There are so many places in the world that I would be happy living. One of them, it turns out, is the Coolee region of southwestern Wisconsi...

Last July I received an email from the children's librarian in Galesville, Wisconsin, inquiring whether Cody Harmon, King of Pets was g...

I promise I won't write every single blog post for the rest of my life about poetry, poetry, poetry. But I'm still loving every mi...

It's Day 6 of my commitment to write a poem every day this month under the guidance and encouragement of poet Molly Fisk (see previous p...

April is National Poetry Month, and in the nick of time I signed up for the perfect National Poetry Month activity. I've committed to wr...

Today is the day before April, the day for me to reprint my now-traditional day-before-April post.  My mother was an elementary school te...

I'm back from my annual trip to the Children's Literature Festival sponsored by the University of Central Missouri, in Warrensburg. ...