I am never one to ask for help from anyone. I don’t know and can’t really answer it right now. It will probably take some deep reflection to answer this one a few posts from now (not making any promises). What I can say is that when it comes to my classroom children, I get […]
Teaching Kids To Love Literacy
I’m forever thankful that our home is filled with books. I have novels, non-fiction and magazines in every room. Books aren’t forced down the throats of my boys but they know that reading is a HUGE part of my life as a writer. I firmly believe that, to become an even better writer, you need […]
Raising Young Readers
Ever since I was a young girl, I remember loving to read. I witnessed my mom and dad reading the newspaper so I suppose I come by this love naturally. We would be shopping on Pitkin Avenue and run into the Botanica ( is a retail store that sells folk medicine, religious candles and statuary) […]
The Book That Got Me To Read Again
I have LOVED reading since a very young age. Can I tell you that for my birthday I was gifted Barnes & Noble (or remember Walden’s Books?) gift cards every year. I would spend hours combing the shelves and seeking out my favorite authors. How would I find them? I would read the best seller […]
Celebrating National Family Literacy Month
As much as I want my boys to LOVE books as much as I do, it hasn’t happened yet. I love to be real with my readers and although I have read to my kids since they were in utero, they choose other things to do most of the time, but NEVER turn down an […]
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