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Some interesting titles on this list: I’ve only read one of them, but intend to look up the others. There’s a little bit of wrestling with genre definitions in the news article that [...]

Family day. COOKIES FOR DINNER. # Started the day with 47 emails in my Priority A email box. Now have 24. Unfortunately, those are the 24 most complicated… # Polishing up lecture I [...]

This morning Dan found the biggest egg ever in the nesting boxes. Not just an egg. An EGG. That’s ONE egg in the pan. Somewhere out there, a chicken is lying down to recover.

Heading off the grid for family day. # DS18 called from India. He went on a camel safari, took a 15-hour bus trip to Delhi, likes his volunteer job in the Rajasthan desert. # Just ate [...]

I haven’t posted an update on my reading for a while. Actually I haven’t posted anything lengthy for a while. I’ve been submerged in researching, editing, and keeping up with [...]

Mollie, who’s the marketing director at Peace Hill Press (the small press I run in Charles City), has a multimedia experiment in the works: populating the Peace Hill Press Youtube channel. [...]

Going off the grid for a (silent) family day. # Trying to answer interview questions by email. Making my brain hurt. # Inside house: half-sick mom trying to nap. Outside: children w/sticks trying [...]

I’m at the William and Mary library this afternoon, researching and writing for the middle-grade writing curriculum which will follow Writing With Ease. I’m working, simultaneously, [...]

Hey, I wrote about these guys! From CNN: They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave. Their resting place was [...]

After giving my faithful readers a chance to point out any blog reviews that I might have missed, I summoned my lovely assistants to help me carry out the drawing for the winner. Ben cut apart [...]

Watching closing ceremonies; glad that corruption and tyranny didn't permanently deprive Russia of that heartbreaking national anthem. # Er. Well, closing ceremonies demonstrate that [...]

Thanks to all of you who responded to my blog review offer! Here’s a list of the blog reviews that we know of. Enjoy reading, if you feel so inclined. And if you reviewed the book and [...]