A Five Star Dilemma
I love the speech at the end of the movie Ratatouille that talks about critics. It starts with the statement, Negative criticism is fun to...
Ride the Lightning Thief
My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...
Kyoto Station
The main train station in Kyoto....
The Truth About Rejection
Have you heard about the writer whose goal was to collect 100 rejections in a year? Have you heard about the writer who is trying...
A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden are two of my favorite childhood reading experiences. I did not find out until...