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For my last two days of Paying it Forward, I'll be interviewing authors who have books coming out this spring. While I feel like this w...

At noon today, we'll be half way through Pay it Forward interview week -- it's going so fast! Hopefully you've taken some time t...

Hello on day 2 of Pay it Forward interview week! Hopefully you've taken some time to visit some of the other writers' blogs (links b...

Welcome to Pay it Forward interview week! Here and all over the writer blogs (links below), you'll be drenched in inspiration and encour...

We've all had those Little Engine That Could moments, where we're telling ourselves, "I think I can. I think I can," even ...

Confession: I love revising. Love it. Don't get me wrong, I love drafting too – the suspense of becoming acquainted with new char...

The SCBWI winter conference was last week in New York. I was there, as were fellow Team Sparklers: Susan Adrian, Emily Hainsworth and Vic...

My Super Bowl pick from yesterday: Anyone but Peyton Manning could win. I'm sure he's a very nice man, but I don't like hi...

Like many of the important things in my life, Jane Austen is something I learned from my sister. Unlike Lip Smackers, New Kids on the Block...

I'm not going to do a New Year Resolutions post. I'm certainly not going to put in writing that I intend to blog more in 2010 – thou...

Apparently I read books by Courtney Summers before parent-teacher conferences. This was never something I planned, but I read Cracked Up To ...

I fell during my run today. One stride I was rushing forward, chattering to St. Matt about an amazing book I'd read yesterday and admiri...

It feels weird not to check Twitter before bed . This the tweet I almost posted last night – before I remembered that in order to do s...

I was driving by myself to meet friends after school one day this week. As I neared a normally-busy intersection, I was startled to realize ...

In class last week, I showed the kiddos this video*. When it was over and the giggles subsided, I asked them why they thought I'd shown ...

Each year room 202 has a defining moment. It's the instant the kiddos change from a rag-tag group of individuals who happen to have the ...