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Did You Know?

For more information about the Story Shares Teen and Young Adult Literacy Project, please click here.Filed under: Story Shares Teen & YA Literacy Project Tagged: reading education, Relevant Reads, Story Shares, story shares literacy project, teachers, teaching literacy, teaching reading, teen literacy, young adult literacy, young adult readers

Did You Know?

For more information about the Story Shares Teen and Young Adult Literacy Project, please click here.Filed under: Story Shares Teen & YA Literacy Project Tagged: reading education, Relevant Reads, Story Shares, story shares literacy project, teachers, teaching literacy, teaching reading, teen literacy, young adult literacy, young adult readers

Did You Know?

For more information about the Story Shares Teen and Young Adult Literacy Project, please click here.Filed under: Story Shares Teen & YA Literacy Project Tagged: reading education, Relevant Reads, Story Shares, story shares literacy project, teachers, teaching literacy, teaching reading, teen literacy, young adult literacy, young adult readers

Last Chance to Get “Weekend Away: An Almost-Erotic, Almost-Love Story” FREE for Kindle

Tomorrow is the last day to download my long short story Weekend Away: An Almost-Erotic, Almost-Love Story FREE for Kindle! *** “And then we were standing, rising up from the water, and as the droplets cascaded down my naked body I imagined myself as a mortal and less awe-inspiring version of Aphrodite, and Jesse as […]

A Quick Thank You!

Many thanks to Pat Hensley of successfulteaching.blogspot.com for her post regarding the Story Shares teen & young adult literacy project! It’s especially heartening to me to find teachers who want to get involved :)      Filed under: Science & Society Tagged: books for teens, educators, reading education, Story Shares, story shares literacy project, teachers, […]

Teens Struggling with Reading? Story Shares Can Help!

Hello everyone! As some of you already know, I am a volunteer author for the Story Shares teen and young adult literacy project. Story Shares (www.storyshares.org) is a charitable nonprofit organization that is building a library of “Relevant Reads” designed specifically for young adults and teens who struggle with reading – books on more mature themes that are “hard […]

In Honor of Veterans’ Day…

   Filed under: Science & Society Tagged: Charles M. Schultz, dogfight, peanuts, remembrance, Snoopy versus the Red Baron, Veterans Day, World War I

Shadow Puppet Brewing Company – 1st Anniversary Party Today!

I am pleased to announce the first anniversary party of Shadow Puppet Brewing Company, happening TODAY from 11 am to 10 pm at 4771 Arroyo Vista, Suite B in Livermore, California. Hard to believe it’s been a year already! Shadow Puppet is currently one of four craft breweries in the city of Livermore, which is […]

Happy Halloween!

Here’s hoping this is the year the Great Pumpkin finally visits your pumpkin patch!      Filed under: Cuteness, Not-Always-So-Popular Culture Tagged: Charlie Brown, Great Pumpkin, halloween, Halloween cartoon, Happy Halloween, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, peanuts

Words Reveal What Masks Conceal: An Essay on Halloween

When I was in the seventh grade, my English teacher assigned us a creative writing project for Halloween. We were to compose short stories, which we would then read aloud before the class, coupled with a competition of sorts in which the students would vote on who had written the best one. Now in my […]