A Year of Reading

Unsplash photo via Chandler Cruttenden Ode to Parent Conferences Conferences, you exhaust me. I spend hours getting ready for you...

Unsplash photo by NordWood Themes Autumn Cadenza Oak leaves drift down, a brown rustle. Crickets are hushed. Only sound -- plop ...

Click to enlarge  Click to enlarge I'm tickled pink and proud as punch! I also can't wait to dig into the book an...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by VirtualEyeSee Choosing Teams There are owls in the neighborhood now. Two barred owls wondering, ...

I'm on the Charlotte Huck Award (for Outstanding Fiction for Children) committee. This is what my basement book shelf looks like: ...

TEACHING I teach, I watch. They fall, I catch. I lift, they soar. I brood, they hatch. They spread, I gath...

...although I feel slightly ridiculous because the contrast between this and the book Franki posted about earlier this week is...um...stunni...

The book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo was recommended to me by a few friends early last spring. I bought it, put it o...

The More You Love The more you love, the harder you work. The harder you work, the more you accomplish. The more you accomplish,...

I love discovering great new nonfiction books, especially when a great new book leads me to an author who is new-to-me. Last week I pi...