A Year of Reading

This week, I realized how much I have missed good adult novels.   Ann Patchett is one of my favorite authors of all time. I read BEL CANTO ...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by davedehetre Hundreds of Fireflies BY BRAD LEITHAUSER Sky yet violet, shadows collecting under the...

The thought of reflecting on such an amazing 3 days of learning and friends is overwhelming. So, I decided to do a series of posts on the Al...

One of my favorite sessions at the All Write Summer Institute was Cris Tovani's talk "Rigor and Hard are not the Same: Redefining T...

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I m...

The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang Scholastic Press, 2011 review copy provided by the publisher An ancient Chinese com...

The Cardturner by Louis Sachar Delacorte Press, 2010 review copy provided by the publisher My mom is a bridge player. When I received...

I had no idea how I would manage Donalyn Miller's Book-A-Day Challenge . I knew that summer would provide some days that I would have lo...

You Are There by Erica Jong You are there. You have always been there. Even when you thought you were climbing you had already ar...

My 2nd grade class photo. I am the 3rd from the right in the front row. My 4th grade class picture. I am on the far left side in the ...