If you know who Keyes and Hayak you gotta see this. It’s economics hip hop/rap. comments

  Today, Justinian (who objects to being called a human volcano and wants a new nickname) performed a magic show for his class at school. I thought it would just be his class, but there were several classes there, and other kids stopped to watch, too. He wore all black with his cape and magician’s…

   Our heroine, Rachel Griffin (grown up) Today, we have something fun…a new Writing Tip. Writing Tips get onto my list when something strikes me as a principle that I want to remember for future writing projects. This one I learned the hard way through hours of painful, heartrending (imaginary) angst. But it is so effective…

Today’s post is at Danielle Ackley-McPhail’s new Literary Handiman blog. Here is the beginning: As children, so many of us dream of becoming authors, of penning some great novel and wowing the world with the vision that flows from our typing fingers. For some of us, this dream comes true…well, at least parts of it…

Haven’t gotten to a post for this week…hope to get back to those soon…but in the meantime, ever wonder what it would look like if John and I worked together? Here we have a scene in which my chracter meets the villain from the novel John wrote in college (who is now a character in…

I have been waiting for permission to post this. It’s up on Amazon, so I assume it is all right now. Finally, a cover that has something to do with my book: comments

I was interviewed today by Heidi Ruby Miller.  You can find the inteview here. Yesterday, she interviewed John. comments

We got interm reports from the school yesterday…apparently four report cards a year are not good enough, the poor teachers also have to send interm reports half way through the semester. (The Princess’s teachers have to email them, too.) The elementary schools don’t use A, B, C, D, and F. They use N, S, G,…

My daughter wants to know what wiped out the dinosaurs. Our answers did not satisfy her, so she wants to go look in every country to find out if there are dinosaurs somewhere. She says if she raises one from a baby ‘maybe it no go to eat everyone.’ She also wants to know ‘how…

Tiffany Tang in The Storm Warriors   Last night John and I were watching The Storm Warriors, a beautifully-filmed Chinese martial arts movie with huge doses of awe and splendor. John does not care for dubbed movies, so we were watching it in Cantonese with English subtitles…even though I was trying to do laundry at…