Before moving to Arizona when I was nine years old, my early years were spent in the San Francisco Bay Area. My grandparents lived in a...

Growing up, Thanksgiving was a major holiday with my extended family. My grandparents had a beautiful Tudor-style home in the Berkeley...

Music is a HUGE part of my life. It’s in my DNA, after all. My grandmother, mother, and aunt were all music teachers, and had perfect...

Have you ever walked into a room and the smell of something immediately triggers a memory? Driven down the street you used to live on and...

I was first introduced to social media on April 16, 2007, the day of the Virginia Tech shootings. My niece was a sophomore there. As I...

On a November day many years ago, I had each child in my fourth grade classroom take turns sharing what they were thankful for. The usual...

I often get a question about my imprint, Pearl White Books. Where did the name come from? One nice thing about publishing independently...

Start a new career after 32 years of teaching? Sure, why not? What could possibly be so hard about writing for kids? After all, I taught...