The sky is turtle-back grey today as storms approach from the west. School are operating on a three hour delay, so I still have kids asleep ...

So I've been on this reading kick lately: author memoirs. The latest is one my sweet husband gave me for Christmas, called BAD BOY by ...

a picture I will be putting in my scrapbook! This weekend I am going on a scrapbooking retreat with some of my most favorite women. We...

A couple of months ago I visited Frankfort, Kentucky, for Kentucky Book Fair (which was awesome, especially as my good friend Pat was with...

According to Amy Tan, in her book THE OPPOSITE OF FATE, our best stories come from "our worst life experiences." I don't k...

Happy Poetry Friday! The amazing Renee La Tulippe has Roundup at No Water Rive r. Just finished Lisa Schroeder 's latest YA, FALLING...

So many exciting and unexpected things have happened since little Ludelphia made her way into the world, and this has got to be one of the v...

Thanks to the holidays, I've got two movies to share with you this morning. The first, LES MISERABLES, which we saw with our younges...

There were so many great poetry books nominated for this year's CYBILS, and the publishers were great to supply panelists with copies o...

Every year I select one little word to be a guiding light for my year. In the past, I have chosen words like CELEBRATE and LISTEN and in 201...

What fun it was to read with Round One judges  Carol Wilcox, Jon e Rush MacCulloch, A nastasia Suen ,  Tricia Stohr-Hunt ,  Misti Tidman  an...

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...