A Day at Liberty Bay

It’s here-with beautiful illustrations by Isabel Roxas (visit her website here).  Ladybug has over 60,000 subscribers-with library distribution as well as individual readers, I am guessing about 100,000 children and adults around the country and world will enjoy our beautiful Liberty Bay this month! Order copies here.  Contact me for readings-I love to share my…

Workshops and Readings

I love few things better than sharing my love of stories, poems, and the music of words with children. In the past few years, I have had the privilege of visiting elementary schools, armed with my Story Bag, a drum, my favorite poems, and yes– a puppet or two.  Often, I send ahead one or two…

Writing Retreat

This past week, we climbed in the car and headed through widely varying landscape to Spokane, WA.  Martin had a conference but I had a writing retreat with my dear friend and wonderful fellow writer, Lindsay Joss-Iudicello! We also ate a lot of good food, since Spokane has a wide variety of delicious options.  Martin…