Creative Writing, the Library, and Author Visits

I absolutely love that my school benefits from two author visits a year. Now, to give credit where credit is due, I am not directly responsible for the logistics of bringing the authors to our school; my co-librarian handles that. But the point of this post is to share a recent author visit, and how …

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Valentine’s Day in Middle School.

Today is a bit of an oops, as in, I probably should have posted this earlier this week when I said I was going to. With a field trip, author visit, and Virginia Readers Choice pizza party, it was a bit on the crazy side. Sticking with my "Create & Share" 2016, I want to …

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Because Some Days are Awesome.

I began a blog post earlier (which will be posted...early next week I think) but as I was writing it, something in my heart (and brain) was telling me I needed to write about this instead. So here goes: Yesterday was one of those days that I get occasionally where I felt like I truly …

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