An Hour A Day

I'm now finishing up my second week of the six-week term of the Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial I'm teaching at Hollins Universit...

I had no sooner arrived at Hollins University for my summer teaching in the graduate programs in children's literature (i.e., paradise),...

I leave tomorrow to spend six weeks teaching in the Graduate Program in Children's Literature and Children's Book Illustration at Ho...

In the first book in my Nora Notebooks series, The Trouble with Ants , budding myrmecologist (ant scientist) Nora is irritated by the deci...

This year May was my cruelest month. My family is undergoing huge, heartbreaking changes. For the past four years my son and his wife - an...

I've now finished three exhilarating and exhausting days of children's literature research at the Kerlan. And when I say "exhau...

Last year, in my seventh decade on this earth, I learned something wonderful that I wish I had learned a long time ago: you can apply for gr...