Late last month, Betsy, Ramona and I went to see the filmed version of the Broadway show Newsies . They're big fans of the movie (w...

I recently mentioned that we do a freewrite every week at our writing group . I'm sharing Ramona's from last week because I just...

Way back when Anne-with-an-e was a sophomore in high school and Betsy was in 8th grade, we started a weekly writing group with two of th...

* Last week included the final primping of Pumpkindore which -- Ramona was delighted to learn -- won second place in the family division of ...

One of Ramona's best friends had an idea for their writing group. They were each to compose three haiku about animals, then read the ...

Most recent FB posts/Tweets: No, "Amazon Recommends" -- just because I liked Sponge-Bob Square Pants that does NOT mean I will l...

* Okay, not a real guillotine. It's a vivid black-and-white image, appropriately captioned, "Madame Guillotine."  Betsy's ...

Writing with teens? The single best piece of advice I have to offer is this: Start a writing group. (A friend of mine who runs a homes...

Recently (oh, was that really back  on August 21st ?) I mentioned that we'd be getting back to school after Labor Day. We did indeed sta...

Part 1 is here . Today I'm taking a look at this question: "What did you think high school would look like for your oldest and ...

Because sometimes one just needs a brainstorming session: Anne-with-an-e craved just such a session to ignite some new story ideas. She...

I host a weekly writing group with my older girls and their friends. Ramona and her friends decided they wanted to have a writing group...

Recent Reading:  I got half way through Michael Pollan's  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals before I had to ...