On the eve of a honeymoon trip that never takes place, Daniel Rufer’s health takes a shocking turn. His debut memoire, Disconjugate Gaze,...

2019 –The number itself seems tucked under the chin of 2020. Such placement makes me think it’ll hurry along. And since it’s not a leap...

A Light of Her Own by Carrie Callaghan (Amberjack Publishing, 2018) Carrie Callaghan’s A Light of her Own is a newly released historical...

Here’s a list of picture books about water, with thanks to those around the world who love and protect waters that give us life and...

Over the past few months I've shared my writing projects with close to a dozen elementary school classes. There's nothing like the...

“All the Water in the World ….is all the water in the world.” How’s that for a opening line? The entire book delivers on the promise of...

Edward Dolnick presents this broad story in a clear narrative style that all readers will appreciate. Readers of Seeds of Life will revel in

Here's my final book rec in celebration of Picture Book Month! The Boy Who Invented TV, , written by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by...

In celebration of my daughter's birthday AND of Picture Book Month, today's recommendations show what girl power can do in math and the...

Two more engaging picture books to celebrate Picture Book Month! Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth,...

In celebration of November being Picture Book Month, I’ll be sharing a few wonderful science-minded picture books with you! Most will be...

This weekend I attended my first writer’s conference, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be going back for another. The winter conference of SCBWI,...

The Dreamer, by Pam Munoz Ryan, is a mandate for allowing each and every child to grow into the person he or she is meant to be. Magical...

The following article was published in STEAM Ed Magazine, July 2016 edition. Who among us has never doubted something that we’ve been...

This is an updated version of a review I had written when Laura Snyder's Eye of the Beholder was released just over a year ago. This week...

If my life were a quilt, three of its squares would represent the phases of my career. One of those squares would signify music, my first...