Many thanks to the divas at readergirlz for the chance to give back today. I dropped POISON by Bridget Zinn at my local junior high. I asked the school librarian to do as she thinks best with the book — give it away to a kid who would enjoy it or add it to the… Read more
When I was about 12 I longed for a silk jacket like the ones on the movie Grease. In my dreams, it was pink with white stitching on the back and made me look like a Pink Lady. I remember waiting a long time for my parents to buy it for me, but it probably… Read more
Every month I get together with a group of writers called Our Spirited Pens. Martha, a member of our group, has been telling us for some time about her talented daughter-in-law who writes and illustrates children’s books. We were thrilled this past month when Lorie Ann Grover said she’d come to speak to our little… Read more
A Meteoric Bad Week
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Last week a meteor blasted across the skies of Russia with many a car camera catching it’s unforeseen flight. At about the same time, people gathered in other locations with their telescopes to watch a much larger but predicted asteroid slide harmlessly past the earth. The two events were completely unrelated according to all the… Read more
Two weeks ago I took a class entitled “I EAT FEAR” taught by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe as a part of her 38 Write series. After some self reflection, I chose to eat my fear of electricity. It wasn’t easy, and I didn’t triumph. But here’s what I wrote for the class: Electric shock. I abhor… Read more
“Hello,” I croaked. I knew that the person on the other line could barely hear me, and I wondered why I’d bothered to answer the phone at all. Too late now. “Uh…is Philip Myton there?” said the receptionist from the clinic my husband uses. “No, he’s not.” I breathed more than spoke those words. I… Read more
So here I am writing my second book review on this blog. I hesitate to criticize other writers. However, I’m hoping to look critically at these already published books and then better understand how to do this amazing thing authors do: weave a story and make it work. I’m hoping that by writing this out… Read more
My sister Mary recently told me about listening to Snow Falling on Cedars with her 14 year old son. He needed to finish an abundance of school assigned reading and had fallen behind, so she checked out the CD’s for the long holiday drive to his grandmother’s house. “I didn’t remember the sex scenes from… Read more