Over the last year, my daughter and I have been making miniature candy out of polymer clay, to diffuse the desire for real sweets. It worked...

Mrs. Nelson's Bookstore was new to me, but what a pleasant surprise! We arrived early and walked around the entire store looking into ev...

I've always liked Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, so when Marla Frazee and my publisher both told me about the bookstores weekly s...

So far our trip to L.A. has been a whirlwind: parties, a Pecha Kucha , book readings and visits with dear friends. I have one more reading c...

It is POURING today. Millions of nature's teardrops are playing a rhythmic tune on the red metal roof. Leonard Cohen is singing in the b...

It has been a crazy summer so far, driving back and forth between the country and the city, packing, unpacking, planning, driving, catching ...

Every night we pick three books to read. Both my husband and I love picture books, so we have a lot of them. Yet I find myself reaching for ...

My daughter was in one of the local Waldorf parent-child classes this spring.  The program focussed on a slow separation process between p...

For this post I decided to review one of my favorite NOT new picture books. I have quite a few. When I looked some of the books up on Amazon...

I just came across this wonderful article on a study done by Dr. George Valliant. He has been following the lives of a group of men for deca...