What Makes You Want to Read a Book? Make a Friend? Fall in Love?
Two things I'm thinking about this morning. 1) At my sister and brother-in-law's holiday party over the weekend, when they put an advance...


You've Written a Novel...Now What?
Yesterday, Rebecca Wallace-Segall, a marvelous writing teacher as well as founder of youth writing program Writopia Lab (and therefore my...


Love this...a poem about voting
Came across this in a collection of poems I was reading because a reviewin a free newspaper stuffed under the door in my hotel room in...

New Home for My Blog
This is the illustration I made for my new blog. I realized as I was writing my blog before that what I want to write about is writing -...


On Thanksgivingukkah, Cooking, Cooking Rugelach (?!), and Writing
Okay, peeps, it’s pie sale time. You can tell it’s pie sale time because I’m saying things like “Okay peeps.” During the pie sale I morph...


Reduce… Reuse… Wear Your Book Jacket as a Halloween Costume
Last night was Halloween and looking for sturdy shopping bags to make kids’ costumes I came across this American Girl Doll bag,...