An Hour A Day

Ten years ago I published a chapter book called Being Teddy Roosevelt. In the book, Riley summons the can-do spirit of Teddy Roosevelt t...

I'm back from my "Grand European Tour," a fourteen-day Viking River Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest, with a two-day extensio...

I leave in a few hours to get the bus to the airport, to fly to Minneapolis, and then on to Amsterdam, for my first-ever Viking River Cruise...

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...