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Virtual Learning is Exhausting for Students, Parents and Teachers
We’re only half-way through the year and we’re tired. I retired from teaching two years ago, but this September, when our school division decided to offer virtual classes four days before school opened, I offered to be one of the teachers and they accepted. With nearly thirty years...
Book 3 is here! Watch Me is Now Available!!
Book 3 of the Breaking the Rules Series: WATCH ME is now available! It’s Hannah against the town! Hannah knows what it feels like to be an outsider. Disturbed by how her town treats a homeless man named Ben, she’s determined to help. When Ben is arrested for a string of ro...
OAG 6 Days Blog-Hop #6 Stop
Welcome to the #6 stop of the 6 days of OAG blog-hop! Visit every blog that participates in this fun blog-hop and collect 12 words (hidden in the text of the posts between 6 asterisks). If you visit every blog on the list at the end of this post and collect the 12 words, you’ll......
February Reads
I know I’d listed three books for this month, but life and a last minute vacation got in the way! I’ve moved one book to March and hope to get more reading done this month! The Someday Suitcase– Corey Ann Haydu Middle Grade Realistic Fiction Clover and Danny are...
January Reads
Wild Tales by Graham Nash (paperback) I’m a huge lover of biographies and even though much of Wild Tales takes place before I was born (I know, that’s a long time ago), it reveals much of western culture in the sixties and seventies: sex, drugs and rock and roll. The book follows Nash’s life...
Two Habits Guaranteed To Reduce Writer’s Block
You sit down at your computer, open your work in progress and . . . nothing. Not a word, not a sentence, not an idea comes to mind. You reread what you wrote yesterday. Still nothing. In frustration you sit and stare at the screen panicking because this is the only time you’ve got in......