Writing Retreat

Keep walking up the stairs–five flights!  Do you feel your leg muscles burning?  Just when you are panting a bit, you will find two glass doors that lead to The Quiet Room.  And there, it is indeed quiet.  You can work for hours undisturbed, take a break to sit on the terrace and eat lunch…

In MISSOULA!

We took a few days of spring break to rocket over the Cascades in our tiny, packed car (complete with our big dog, Jemma in the back), to see life-long friends in Missoula.  For me, it was more than just a trip of tea, conversation, egg-painting and rambles through the snowy, vast foothills–I got to…

Goings-On

It’s been a busy and fun few days!  Today, I visited Ms. Baker’s kindergarten classroom!  We created some fantastic haiku together about books (we took a page from classic haiku and didn’t pay attention to the stringent syllabic rules that rule haiku these days but instead focused on “word pictures”).  The students spoke their haiku…