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 teaching experience, I figured I…
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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 robberies,…
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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…
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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 the kind…
Continue reading → 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 chronologically…
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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…
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When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her. What Jack doesn’t know, at first, is how desperate Joseph…
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Today, I’m going to start a new feature on my blog where I review books of fellow authors, who are just starting out like me. I’m not going to limit them to middle grade reads, but I will include any books that I think my readers might be interested in. Review It’s my pleasure to…
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One of the most difficult conversations parents can have with their children is about bullying. The word “bullying” triggers some very strong emotions in people. Anger, fear, shame and guilt can all come to the surface, whether we are adults or children. Many of these emotions stem from being bullied, which makes talking to your…
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