What better way to celebrate today’s 134th Birthday of the Statute of  Liberty than to learn first-hand from Claudia Friddell her proven re...

Howdy, Campers and Happy Poetry Friday!  I'm closing out our topic of SURPRISES! Gwendolyn started us off, showing the surprising twists...

I’ve spent a lifetime creatively visualizing Desired Outcomes. I’d read early on that doing so not only aided a Positive Mental  Attitude.  ...

Each Teaching Author has had a wildly different take on the subject of "writing surprises." Writing is itself a surprising art. Yo...

For many posts now, I've been exploring several favorite inspirational blogs that keep my head in the game, that inspire me to keep goin...

Happy Poetry Friday! You'll find a link to this week's roundup by Jone Rush MacCulloch at the end of this post. Today, I'm sha...

My road was more of a circular path on No Thank You Boulevard.  But I learned a lot from my travels. (And I’m still learning.) It has been t...

  As I wrote in my very first TeachingAuthors Thanku , I consider my students and writers  “my  storied treasures.” Lucky me! And now luck...

Howdy Campers!   My fabulous 2019 class with some of their favorite picture books helps me celebrate my 20th year teaching in UCLA Extension...