Sunday, December 31, 2017

Keeping a Promise I Made to Myself

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It is now the last day of 2017. On the first day of 2017 I made a commitment to myself: to submit something somewhere every single month. ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Solstice Celebration: Sewing on a Button

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Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that, little by ...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Seasonal Joy/Seasonal Stress

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Why is it invariably true that the more we give of ourselves to the world, the more the world gives back to us?  Each Christmas I'm r...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

How to Get Readers to Invest in Your Characters

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Our thriving local community of children's book writers has frequent "Boulder Connect" gatherings under the auspices of the So...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Biography Tea - Ten Years Later

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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...
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Sunday, October 22, 2017

A Story of Two Best Friends

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I'm back from my "Grand European Tour," a fourteen-day Viking River Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest, with a two-day extensio...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Off on "The Grand European Tour"

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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...