The Top Three Reasons Summer Youth Theater Camp is Awesome

kids at lunch at drama camp

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

Lessons from making my own 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

Maya Angelou's Thoughts

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 […]

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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

Full Circle Moments

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.