An Hour A Day

This week I had planned to: write my paper submission (on child poet Hilda Conkling) for next year's Children's Literature Associati...

This is what my hero, Victoria novelist Anthony Trollope, wrote in his inspirational autobiography. He was talking about his practice of wri...

I have a lot of worries these days, so I've been thinking a lot about how best to do my worrying. Of course, the very best way to worry ...

When your birthday happens to fall on the date of a total eclipse of the sun, and your younger son has given you eclipse glasses on the prev...

Every once in a while the universe delivers to each of us one perfect day. Yesterday was one of mine. My writer friend Sarah organized a ...

One of my beloved former creative writing students just emailed me with the plaintive question: "So how do I get rid of this self-doubt...

I'm home from my six-week teaching stint at Hollins and immediately launched into a ten-day grandmothering stint here in Boulder. I have...