My car’s driver-side window had been finicky lately. With the turn signal also intermittently working, I worried about mounting car repair bills. I always hear the joke from people picking up their cars that “I should have been an auto mechanic!” You know—always in demand and customers paying whatever it takes to fix their rides. […]
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October 5 (Monday) was World Teachers’ Day. If I wrote everything I had to say about inspiring teachers, it would take up much more than the scope of one blog post. The first teacher to inspire me was my mother. I remember watching her take home papers to grade, and I used my imagination to […]
I’m one of those people—you know the ones. I never complain about heat waves. I dread snow and cold. Putting on pants and socks makes me feel like I’m being mummified. I would love to retire somewhere tropical and warm. But for today’s Fantastic Friday post, I wanted to highlight some of the benefits of […]
Today’s Fantastic Friday post comes on—well, a Sunday. I couldn’t resist posting about the upcoming lunar eclipse, set to start in just a few hours. It’s been cloudy all day, so I’m not sure if I’ll get a clear view or not. If you haven’t heard, here are the details: This lunar eclipse is being […]
Happy Friday! For me, today marked the last day of the first full week of school for the year. Teaching high school is always interesting–and usually tiring, especially at first. I’m looking forward to the long weekend. So I was especially excited to find a box on my doorstep when I got home. It’s my […]
Thanks to friend and fellow author/blogger Debbie Roppolo, who presented me with The Dragon’s Loyalty Award. You can check out her site and read up on her series Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving Imagination (and also score some seriously delicious peanut butter recipes). As part of this recognition, I am to share 7 […]
Last month, on the way to a (wonderful) vacation in Myrtle Beach, we made our annual stop at Parker’s Barbeque in Wilson, North Carolina. We knew the place was good the first year we stopped–because we didn’t get to eat there. It was recommended by Yelp or TripAdvisor, and we arrived on Sunday during prime […]
Today I’m celebrating the release of two anthologies in which my work appears. The first is available for pre-order at this point, but for some reason, Amazon.com has the book offered at a 51% discount (which is essentially cheaper than I can buy it from the publisher!). The book is a Chicken Soup for the […]
Today I’ll be presenting at Longwood University’s Summer Literacy Institute. One of my presentations is an “about me” author discussion in which I take the audience through my dual life as writer-teacher as well as journey through my past to take a look at my influences. In preparing the presentation, I realized that serendipity, or […]
When I was younger, I read a series of books in the Serendipity series—about a sea creature that I always thought looked like a dragon. I remember at some point, my mom tried to explain the meaning of “serendipity” to me, but I was young for my grade level, and lots of things didn’t make […]
