Hello, and happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Carol at Carol's Corner for Roundup. So what's up in my corner? Well. I...

Our older cat Maggie couldn't care less about the Christmas tree, but Bobby... oh, it's a magical new world with baubles to bat...

First Day of Winter “All secrets are witnessed.”- Barbara Kingsolver Somewhere glaciers that haven’t moved for hundreds of years shif...

1. Finished THE CASUAL VACANCY by J.K. Rowling. I'm on the road so much, I opted for the audio version. It's excellent. And so man...

When I am actively writing, it's often hard for me to sustain the attention a full-length novel requires -- so I break out the poet...

A while ago I promised to post on Mondays about noteworthy movies I've had the pleasure of viewing. And I have posted occasionally. Bu...

I was looking through all my cookbooks for a breakfast casserole recipe when I found this entry at the very back of a homemade cookbook th...

I have never been shy about my love of Mississippi. I mean, how can you not love a state with all those hump-backs and crooked letters right...

I guess when I say, "writing for fun," what I mean is, writing  not necessarily for publication . It doesn't make the job ...

As part of my Cybils panelist responsibilities, I've been reading Julie Andrews' TREASURY FOR ALL SEASONS: Poems and Songs to Cel...

Last month in Baton Rouge at the Louisiana Book Festival, I had the opportunity to meet and speak with the current National Ambassador for...

What to say about my first-ever, amazing, inspiring, crazy NCTE annual convention? Yeah. Amazing, inspiring, crazy. Here are some of the...

So there's the Strip, which everyone knows by sight and sound and reputation: the glitz & glam that's an introvert's nightma...

I am super-excited to meet poet-friends Janet Wong, Mary Lee Hahn, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Laura Purdie Salas and Leslea Newman! Oh, an...

Wow, what a great weekend in Frankfort, Kentucky, home of Kentucky Book Fair! Frankfort is a neat little place with a charming downtown --...

Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Ed (of March Madness fame!) for Roundup at Think Kid Think! Me? I'm in Frankfort, Kentucky, gett...

One of the most fun parts of a book release is, after months or years of living so privately with a story, seeing the book out in the wild! ...

illustration by Stephanie Graegin In the (almost) three weeks since the release of DON'T FEED THE BOY, it has been my privilege to v...