It was a big week in middle-grade book releases! So many people we know and love released books this week—there’s an abundance of riches out there. Our friend Carolyn Leiloglou’s […]

This past weekend, I got to spend three days talking with families about books. There’s not much more fun than that in my book. So, while it was definitely exhausting […]

I took a couple of hours this afternoon to just “be”—it’s been a busy (and hard) month, and I’m about to head into a weekend full of work and people […]

The temperature dropped this week. It’s a false fall—I know that—but if my Facebook memories are any indication, the same thing has happened about this time in past years. I […]

I had a sore shoulder, but I was shrugging it off until this week, when a doctor told me I might have strained my rotator cuff—suddenly we’re talking PT and […]