January 31, 2014
Hello! It’s time for Friday Fun. Today, we’re looking at the great combination of literature and food. Can you guess what books these plates of food are inspired by? Click here to try. My best to you all, Megan
Hello! It’s time for Friday Fun. Today, we’re looking at the great combination of literature and food. Can you guess what books these plates of food are inspired by? Click here to try. My best to you all, Megan
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her book. Long before 007, there was George Washington’s Secret Six. These were the men (and one woman!) who helped to uncover the secrets that turned the tide toward the patriots’ favor during the American Revolution. Kilmeade’s and Yaeger’s book, with the…
Hello! Today’s post is all about the Twitter alphabet soup of hashtags that helps writers. Contests: #pitmad – This is a contest on Twitter, held on certain appointed days, where writers can pitch their story idea to agents or editors that are watching the Twitter feed. #pitchmas – This is a contest on Twitter, that…
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”― Voltaire
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her book. Today’s pick is Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects. I received this book for Christmas this year and very much enjoyed it! Last spring, I read MacGregor’s Shakespeare’s Restless World. It too takes objects and tells…
Today is a day when a yearning for freedom, embodied in the work of a man, is commemorated. Freedom, exercised through peaceful means, rallied those in Washington and across the nation in 1963. Just as Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of freedom ringing from the great peaks of the American mountains, his voice and his…
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”― Ray Bradbury
Hello! It’s time for Friday Fun! If you’re fond of animals and smiling- enjoy here!