May 4, 2012 Mixed emotions: What's in Your Bag?

Friends and family often ask me, “How is your writing coming along? Are you finished with your novel? What's your novel about? When will you publish it?

My answers:

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May 9, 2012 Changing The Way Children Read

After learning about Maurice Sendak's passing yesterday, it made me think about how much he changed the way children read. (May he rest in peace.)

In the past, children's and young...

May 14, 2012 A Gift: One Child's Connection to Music

The Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet is an instrumental composition arranged for Franco Zeffirelli's film William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1968)...

May 18, 2012 Deadlines: Do Writers Really Need Them?

I love deadlines. I love having that little voice inside my head, telling me "you must get this done by this date."  When I was a graduate student at...

May 23, 2012 A Literary Movement & The Quest For Freedom

In a recent NY Times article, Why Afghan Women Risk Death...

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