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- Signing at the MD Renaissance Festival October 6, 2019 at 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Maryland Renaissance Festival 1821 Crownsville Rd , Annapolis, MD Page After Page Bookstore (inside the festival village) I'll be signing my fantasy novels SWORD AND VERSE and DAGGER AND COIN, as well as my board books NITA'S FIRST SIGNS and NITA'S DAY! Stop by to get your signed copy, learn how to write your name…
- The Great ASL Mystery at Cascades Library (Potomac Falls, VA) October 22, 2019 at 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Cascades Library 21030 Whitfield Place Potomac Falls, VA 20165 703-444-3228 https://library.loudoun.gov Where did American Sign Language come from? Flex your fingers and join in the hunt for clues as sign language detective Kathy MacMillan leads silly stories, songs, and more. Kathy is the author of Nita’s First Signs and Little Hands and Big Hands: Children…
- The Great ASL Mystery at Rust Library (Leesburg, VA) October 29, 2019 at 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Rust Library 380 Old Waterford Road NW Leesburg, VA 20176 703-777-0323 https://library.loudoun.gov Where did American Sign Language come from? Flex your fingers and join in the hunt for clues as sign language detective Kathy MacMillan leads silly stories, songs, and more. Kathy is the author of Nita’s First Signs and Little Hands and Big Hands:…
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Category Archives: Recommended Reading
Filling the Pen
This writing thing can really knock you on your butt sometimes. Twice this year I got caught up in the maelstrom of negative thoughts, putting so much pressure on myself that I pushed myself to the brink of an abyss … Continue reading
An Interview with Megan Morrison, Author of GROUNDED: THE ADVENTURES OF RAPUNZEL
I recently had the enormous pleasure of interviewing my good friend, Megan Morrison, about her debut middle grade novel, GROUNDED: THE ADVENTURES OF RAPUNZEL, for the Sweet Sixteens’ debut author interview series, The Debut Club. This is an extended version … Continue reading
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Betty May: Exploring the Struggles of Women Behind Bars
When I was a child, I had the incredible good fortune to meet a woman who would shape the person I became, whose energy and belief in others helped me evolve from a shy little girl who cried in the … Continue reading
New Favorite, Old Favorite: Just Like the Movies and The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
Not long ago I had the pleasure of reading Kelly Fiore’s Just Like the Movies, the story of two unlikely friends who set out to recreate scenes from their favorite romantic films in their own lives. Marijke and Lily are … Continue reading
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Everyday Evil
I recently finished The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo (Random House, 2007). This book was extremely hard to read. So hard, in fact, that I actually used up all twenty renewals on the library … Continue reading
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Pressure
So I know that I am coming late to the party with this, but I finally got around to reading the much-recommended Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (New York: Random House, 1995). I … Continue reading
