The Top Three Reasons Summer Youth Theater Camp is Awesome

Summer is coming to an end. Darn. It has been lots of fun, relaxing, invigorating and fulfilling. My husband and I spent most of our summer away from home–our daughter was married, we took a trip to Glacier National Park and ran two drama camps in Mexico, Missouri. Every one of these experience was great! […]
What I Learned From Making My Own Book Video

Here is what I learned from making my own book video. I hadn’t really given it much thought until I started writing this post. For four years, I tried making my own video and it just wasn’t working. Either it looked corny or ammateur. So, I tabled it. Every year I’d put myself through this […]
Maya Angelou’s Thoughts on Creativity

I have to agree with Ms. Angelou. You can’t use up your creativity. It seems the more I imagine, the more I scoop from the creativity pool. It is never ending. Are you a person who has to make yourself sit down to create? Sometimes I am the way. In fact, I can easily distract […]
Three Times a Charm: An Author Interview

Here is my author Interview from Three Times a Charm Welcome to Three Times A Charm. I love to introduce readers to the people involved in children’s publishing. Today we welcome middle grade author, Deborah Baldwin. Deborah, we’d love for you to tell us a little about you. I am an award winning drama teacher […]
I am Featured on TypewriterSociety

With over 40 years of teaching and 250 plays and musicals under her belt, Deborah Baldwin was more than qualified to write a children’s book about putting on a middle school play. Not that putting pen to paper is an easy process. But as Deborah says, writing is a fluid process.
What No One Tells You About Full Circle Moments–Part One

I excited! This weekend I’m going to enjoy a full circle moment.
Have you ever had one of those? You know, a sort of “what goes around comes around” kind of thing? They’re deeply fulfilling.
I would imagine everyone experiences them several times in their lifetime. We joyfully share about them once they occur, but no one advises us on how to handle them.