Being a mom is hard work! Add maintaining a home and possibly working on top of your list, and you’ve got your hands full. When will you have time to take care of yourself? Many moms choose not to, never finding the time or investing in habits and gadgets that can simplify their lives and…
10 Ways to Improve Your Entertainment Skills This Year
Hosting parties is exhilarating, but you also have to keep your guests entertained. It’s much easier to do that after reading a few party-hosting tips like these. Read this guide to learn how to improve your entertainment skills this year and throw the best bashes anyone has ever seen. 1. Strategize Your Guest Lists You…
Red Comet Press Spring 2023 Books & 5 Book GIVEAWAY!
I have two picture book biographies coming out with Red Comet Press but not until next year. In the meantime, I’m so excited about Red Comet Press’s latest offerings! We are also doing a 5 book giveaway. Five winners can each pick a book of their choice from the Spring 2023 catalog! To enter, please…
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Our oldest, Grasshopper and Sensei, is a student at Rhode Island School of Design, and we always made it a point to visit art museums whenever we traveled, but this was the first time that we traveled with her but went to an art museum without her. She took her siblings for a day of…
Teens in College: 4 Life Skills to Teach Them
There are many practical life skills that children don’t seem to be taught anymore, at least not how they were when we were growing up. You’ve skimped, saved, and gotten together the money needed for your teen to head off to college, but now you’re worried that the child just isn’t ready. On the academic…
Food for the Future selected by dPICTUS as 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
I’m excited to share that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World was selected by dPICTUS for their list of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023! An active community of international picturebook publishers and agents use the dPICTUS online platform to promote their titles, secure foreign rights deals, discover emerging talent, and make…
Challenging Erasure: Books for kids that talk about Palestine and the lived experience of Palestinians
Please welcome my guest author Alice Rothchild with her book list about Challenging Erasure: 15 books for kids that talk about Palestine and the lived experience of Palestinians. Her newest book is Finding Melody Sullivan. Finding Melody Sullivan by Alice Rothchild Finding Melody Sullivan is my contemporary young adult novel about trauma, (from the personal…







