For the past five years, I have offered a challenge to my fifth grade students: Write something that makes me cry. The contest was born from Sharon Creech’s Love That…
The snowpack is finally low enough to not swallow up our children, and temperatures have finally risen enough to not risk frostbite and hypothermia in our little ones. It’s been…
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I’ve been blogging for over ten years now. Every single day for more than a decade, I have sat down and written something for a blog. Before this blog, there…
Parent-teacher conferences begin for me this week. I will sit down with parents and students and discuss academic progress, effort, behavior, and the students’ prospective futures in middle school and…
TIME lists the “50 Healthiest Foods of All Time.” I have never eaten 14 of them. I don’t actually know what nine of them are, but then again, do you…
Better Call Saul (television show)Listening to my kindergarten daughter read to meOvercast (podcasting app) Chipotle burritosThe Memory Palace (podcast)1776 by David McCullough Tickling my childrenThe Lyle Lovett Pandora stationMy wife…
The local children’s museum, Kid City, recently opened a new medieval room. It’s a fantastic exhibit that includes castle walls, towers, a crossbow range, a tavern, a brick factory, and…
It’s already popped up on Amazon, IndieBound, Goodreads, and the usual bookish places, so let’s make it official. Here it is – the cover of my next novel. It hits…
