Welcome to Blogging A to Z! My theme this year is Going Indie. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to check out the other participating ...

Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

I've been a teacher my whole life. Just ask my cousins and my poor little sister about the days when I forced them to play school with m...

   Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the ...

 In my day job, I teach middle school Spanish. My school, like many in the United States, closed its doors in March 2020, expecting that we...

  It look like I didn't read much in August. Only five books…and I'm cheating a little to claim the fifth. I still have a couple mor...

  The Practical Pedagogue: Things I Learned Today: Starting the Schoolyear di... :  1. It's easier with the students I already know than...

I've technically had a "room of my own" for a couple of years now. When the eldest daughter went off to college, the younger d...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the  In...

This month I'm writing one post for each letter of the alphabet, all on the theme of "Letters to Dead Writers." You can see...

I'm big on setting goals and challenges for myself. I track my word count, my exercise, my meals, and my reading among other things. I...

Tuesday, September 26, 2017, is a landmark in my writing life. It's day number 1,460 in a row in my writing chain. That's four yea...

Writing has taught me a lot: about myself, about wordsmithing, about the business of publishing, and how to fireproof ordinary clothing . ...

I've been a teacher for twenty years. That's a wonderful and horrifying statistic in itself. In fact, I've not done much of anyt...

Recently I went on a walk in the woods with some friends. These were some of my higher maintenance friends. Normally I let them choose wha...