Ten Reasons Why Everyone Produces Anne of Green Gables
There are certain shows that are guaranteed winners for a company. Anne of Green Gables ranks up there with The Diary of Anne Frank, The Miracle Worker, Alice in Wonderland, The Best Christmas Pageant to name a few.
Ten Years Later: A Chat with Beatrice
I thought it might be fun and interesting to interview Beatrice ten years after the story ended. So, I posed the idea to her and she happily agreed.
Notable Quote from Bumbling Bea
“Yeah, a lot of life isn’t fair,” my dippy brother mimicked.” I didn’t get too upset when Bernie got run over by that car on the same day my camping game website crashed. Remember?” Edmund had built a camping game website and was so obsessed with it that he didn’t notice “Bernie’s Prison Break” […]
Home School Graduation Speech
Special Occasion Speech Hi Everyone, My school, Apex Homeschool Enrichment Program, asked me to present the graduation speech this year. Since this was my last year of teaching these great students; it made the speech even more touching to say to them. I thought you might be interested in reading it. 🙂 A Speech for a Group of […]
Teacher Testimonial on My Book Talk–Terrific!
“My middle school Novel Writing Workshop enjoyed a presentation by Deborah Baldwin, author of Bumbling Bea. The students had read the book and had many questions for the author. One boy asked, “How did you know how to write such ‘with it’ dialogue?” Baldwin’s answer delighted the […]
A Writer’s Journey: A Really, Really Long One But Worth It
People have asked me when and how the story of Bumbling Bea was conceived. To me, it feels like a really, really long story, but maybe it isn’t in the grand scheme of things. Here goes: My grandparents, of whom I never knew, were missionaries in Japan in the 1930’s and 1940’s. My mother was […]