Recently on a break from other work, I picked up Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing and by chance turned to this paragraph (and please insert your own pronoun of choice; this book was published a while ago when pronouns...
Read MoreToday is T.S. Eliot’s birthday. He was born in St. Louis in 1888.A serious reader could feed off “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Wasteland,” or “The Four Quartets” for a long...
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When I was in Maine in August, Rich and my brother and I drove north to Aroostook County to see my...
Read MoreYesterday afternoon was one of those rainy times when it felt just right to settle in with the latest issue of the Horn Book Magazine. Of course I wanted to take a look at “Project Child’s Play,” by Hamline’s own Betsy Thomas,...
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Yesterday was one of those days between projects when it was hard to focus on any one thing....
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