--> Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Karen Edmisten for Roundup. If I was really on it (as I'm sure many of you...

Me with some fabulous future teachers at Troy University-Dothan. Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Cheriee at Library Matt...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit lovely Linda B. at TeacherDance for Roundup. Happy Valentine's Day to all you Lovelie...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit  Laura Purdie Salas for Roundup. Thanks to everyone for helping celebrate the release of D...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Jone for Roundup. Please be on the lookout for my newest poetry book with Charles Water...

me, Charles and Kat (at #NCTE2019) Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit lovely Kat at Kat's Whiskers for Roundup. It...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit for Catherine at Reading to the Core for Roundup. In this addition of ArtSpeak: Red , I wr...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Sally Murphy for Roundup. (Shout-out to all our Aussie poet-friends... keeping you in our...

Happy January 9! What's special about today? Well, it's the first 9 of the new year... and this year 9 is my favorite favorite num...

I'm delighted to be serving this year as a CYBILS judge in the Elementary and Middle Grade Nonfiction categories... and oh what lovely f...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Carol's Corner for Roundup. This year I am showering myself with compassion. One ...

Happy 2020! For the past dozen years, I have selected One Little Word to serve as my guide and inspiration for the year. Here's a list o...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday on this, the last Poetry Friday of 2019! Be sure to visit Michelle Kogan for Roundup. I offer you this poem...

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Buffy's Blog for Roundup. This is the final entry in my 180-post series! You can chec...

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in  THE BUTTERL...

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in  THE BUTT...