Memories: Working at Scholastic, 1986.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized | 13 Comments »That's me with the antenna. Wait, no, I'm in the middle. I started at Scholastic as a Junior Copywriter for $12,500 a year, hired partly because of a writing sample, an opinion piece I wrote about the subway shooter, Bernie Goetz (no ...
Soul Christmas Playlist
Monday, December 19th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »This will be my last post until 2012. I want to thank you for stopping by -- I really do appreciate your interest and your support. I wish you a healthy, happy holiday season. I love Christmas music, all of it, of ...
Animoto Video: Cool Teaching Tool
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Poetry Wednesday: “The Grass, the Earth”
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I'm headed down to NYC to catch a concert and to celebrate a pending birthday. This poem has been in my computer for a couple of years, fussed with and ignored in equal measure, so figured I'd throw it out ...
New Beginnings
Monday, January 3rd, 2011 Posted in Bystander, Uncategorized, bullying | No Comments »I love the idea of a new year, of turning the page and fresh beginnings, old failures pushed away and forgotten, a clean slate, room with space enough for wild new hope to grow. Happy new year everybody. I want to post about my ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #99 (Friday Edition)
Friday, November 19th, 2010 Posted in Fan Mail, Jigsaw Jones, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Wow, I am so busy I can't believe it. I am still revising my new YA, going on school visits, brainstorming-slash-scribbling a first draft for a new MG novel (so excited about this one!), planning Skype visits, and, yes, reading ...
School Library Journal Reviews “Justin Fisher Declares War!”
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »My Scholastic editor, Shannon Penney, just passed along the upcoming SLJ review for Justin Fisher Declares War! After so much time went by since the August 1 publication, I just assumed that they had either: 1) ignored it; or 2) ...
The Legend of the Adirondack Shark
Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Family, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Here's some mindless fun -- and I do mean mindless! At the end summer, we joined three other families for a weekend camping trip at Forked Lake in the Adirondacks. Nine kids, seventeen folks in all. It's become a tradition for one ...
Overheard: “One time I touched Grandma’s hair and it was hard. It was HARD!”
Monday, August 9th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I don't have a whole lot to add to that story, actually. The line was recently spoken by my daughter, Maggie Ann, about my mother, Ann.
Another Starred Review for “A Pirate’s Guide”
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »This makes me happy. A Pirate's Guide to First Grade earned a second starred review, this time from Publishers Weekly . . . "This rambunctious first day tale is fit for any young buccaneer. Leading an imaginary crew who are drawn ...