Tonight a writer brought a story to our Cape Cod Children’s Writers critique group about a weasel trying to save two baby seagulls before the tide rolled in. The seagulls refused to cooperate, no matter what the weasel did because they thought he was trying to eat them. The weasel said to himself that he . . . → Read More: Weasels & Seagulls
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The five participants in this week’s Young Authors Workshop at Firefly Moon in Arlington MA made me ultra proud today. These children worked very hard for three hours each day and produced some of the best writing I’ve ever seen. I enjoyed getting to know them and help them hone their writing skills. We ended . . . → Read More: So Proud! I’m in Arlington MA teaching my Young Author’s Workshop to five superb young writers. The first part of each class works on developing a working writer’s notebook, since the focus of the class is learning to “live a writer’s kind of life”. Each day’s topic deals with observation and noticing the world around us. Yesterday’s . . . → Read More: All By Myself The book I’m illustrating for Diana Lesire Brandmeyer, The Trouble With Ralph, is on it’s way to completion. (Diana also writes adult fiction and a blog – check out her website) If you had told me at anytime in my life that I’d illustrate a book, especially one that wasn’t mine, I’d never have . . . → Read More: Coming Soon! …and living in Sandwich! Today is my first post as a blogger on the Cape Cod Mommies website! Today’s post can be found at: Cape Cod Mommies And so, as another day goes by, hurry on over and see what’s going on, and…I have written. Be nice…please share. PinterestTwitterEmailFacebook From today’s Cape Cod Times: East Sandwich- Maureen Brenner summed up in one word her advice to students graduating from The Riverview School on Sunday: yet. “Sometimes things seem too hard and we can’t do it yet” Riverview is a private boarding school for children and young adults with complex language, learning and cognitive . . . → Read More: Yet Recently I had my hair spritzed with red again, so when I entered the the Koko Fit Club this morning fit coach Amanda commented on how cute it was and wasn’t it purple last month? Near me was an elderly woman with gorgeous short, white-silver hair. She commented she liked my hair then said, “Imagine . . . → Read More: Forget Your Age; Live Your Life “And that is why, when it’s time to make a change in my life, I just BEGIN. Even if I’m starting in the wrong place. On the wrong project. I simply BEGIN. ACTION is magical. Somehow, action leads to clarity. Begin somewhere and just pay attention to the results you get. Then, . . . → Read More: It’s All In The Eyes This morning I woke up lying in the aftermath of my week in Boston. A week that I could never, even in my writer’s imagination, have imagined. I needed to keep my lens, through which I focus the week’s happenings, adjusted properly. I knew today was going to be a day of coming down, coming . . . → Read More: A Soft Landing …then there was today. Yesterday was day 4 of my Young Authors Workshop. The children were very excited because the next day they were doing “author readings” in the store and the local newspaper was coming. They spent the better part of the class finishing the illustrations for their books they were going to share . . . → Read More: First There Was Yesterday… |
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