When I first embarked on my writing journey, I was newly retired at age 53 after teaching school for 32 years. Not ready for the rocking chair on the front porch—do you really know any Baby Boomers who are?—I decided to try my hand at writing books. Easy, Peasy, I thought. Boy, was I ever wrong! You can read more about my writing journey in my first blog entry back in 2020 .   After saturating myself in KidLit workshops, conferences, blogs, webinars—you name it—I found one co

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...