Meet & Greet for YA/Children’s Writers and Illustrators of Color in the Boston Area! Thursday, December 5, 2019 7 PM – 9 PM Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 This is a casual meetup for YA and children’s writers and/or illustrators who identify as Indigenous, Black, and/or People of Color (IBPOC)….
Author: Pragmatic Mom
13 Children’s Books About Firefighters
Inside: Celebrate our heroes with these children’s books about firefighters! Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarten kids who love firefighters and fire trucks. Vendome Firefighters Memorial is on Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay Boston near the intersection of Dartmouth Street. I have passed by it many times on my way to my office without knowing what…
Visiting NYU
This is my second visit to NYU (New York University). For my oldest, we did a self-tour of the Tisch School of the Arts last year. I’m glad that my daughter and I sat in the formal school visit which started with an extensive video that went all over the different and copious options of…
My Dorm Room Start Up Celebrates 35 Years & Entrepreneurship Children’s Books
I founded Aquent, now the world’s largest talent agency for creative and Web professionals, in my college dorm room with two classmates, in 1986. Fifteen years later, Aquent has grown to 60 offices in nine countries, generating more than $200 million in revenue last year. It’s a far cry from the early days when we were…
Suffragist Lost to History: Lucy Stone
I recently happened upon the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Back Bay Boston. Note that these three women are not placed on a pedestal, but rather use it as a support. That’s a deliberate decision on the part of the artist Meredith Bergmann. I plan to take a closer…
5 Ways to Get Better Quality Sleep Starting Tonight
My son, since his long-term concussion, has had trouble sleeping at a normal time. He has to wake up at 6:30 am to get to high school on time. As a result, there are days like yesterday, when he was running on no sleep and falling asleep in class. We are working on his sleep…
Visiting Colgate University
Colgate University struck me as a sporty college, known for its Division 1 teams. I’ve noticed that when small liberal arts colleges focus on sports, it can be at the expense of diversity. For one thing, the male to female ratio is NOT 1:1 which is strange. It’s 54.9% female to 45.1% male. Colgate doesn’t…