Middle School Drama Success: Choice Boards in Action
Middle School Drama Success: Choice Boards in Action If you are like me, you like to make choices for yourself. That’s one of the cool things about being an adult, don’t you think? We make a lot of choices for ourselves. However, our students don’t have the opportunity to make decisions for themselves very often. […]
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 […]
Bumbling Bea
Many thanks to Russ Brown for his expert illustration of the front cover. Beatrice thinks she has no acting talent but that doesn’t stop her from auditioning for the annual middle school play. She has two missions-winning the role of Pocahontas (which guarantees her popularity with the cool kids, at least in her mind) and […]
Kabukiza Theater re-opens and Michiko attends!
Okay, that statement isn’t really true. The beloved Kabukiza Theater has re-opened after a huge renovation but Michiko didn’t really attend. She is a fictional character from my book, Bumbling Bea’. However, if she could, Michiko would be there along with the thousands of other lovers of Kabuki Theater. I bet she would be first in […]