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Checkout this powerful video about The Girl Effect... Read more

It's up!  Pop over to Chasing Ray and read all the YA authors' reflections on their favorite books as tweens/teens.  Read more

Your assignment is to post a poem in a form unique to a particular country, an example would be the Read more

I'm a highly sensitive person--HSP.  I think I've explained this before; it's a theory by Elaine Aron, and she believes Read more

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Here are some photos I took down by the lake yesterday... A mural that welcomes you to the marina Mom Read more

I came to Toronto yesterday with a headache lurking just behind my left eye--not sure if I'm ovulating (tmi?), or Read more

I don't twitter, because I figure no one's really interested in all the mundane things I do day after day.  Read more

I woke up around 5am this morning--a sudden, severe storm blew across Brooklyn, complete with booming thunder.  Then the rain Read more

No--not like the "other mother" in Coraline!  I'm talking about all the amazing, older women I've encountered in my life Read more

It's a sunny morning here in Brooklyn and Susan over at Black-eyed Susan has a sunny way to start off Read more