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The Silver Coin – The Aleppo Connection
John Dewey once said meaningful learning occurs when successive learning experiences “are integrated with one another. It [a learning experience] can be built up only as a world of related objects is constructed.” That’s one of the tasks of volume 3 in the middle grade historical fiction series Ancient Elements – The Silver Coin. This adventurous series about life …[ read more ]
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New WIP – All That Glitters – With STEAM
I’m excited to move forward with my new middle grade historical fiction work in progress, tentatively titled, All That Glitters. Yesterday I visited Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery, the final resting place for several people from the Donner party, including Virginia Reed, who was thirteen when she came West with her mother, stepfather, and siblings. In my middle …[ read more ]
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The Silver Coin
Book 3 of the Ancient Elements series is now in its final editing stage! This ship is one of the illustrations in the book drawn by my wonderful illustrator, Marsha Ottum Owen. The book’s cover art is still in the development stage.We hope to publish by the end of June, or early July. If you’d …[ read more ]
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Why I Write
Why I Write – Reason #1: So I don’t fall out of bed at night. At least, that’s my working theory. You see, this month I haven’t had time to write. My mom, who has lived with us for the past three years, has dementia. It has now advanced to the point where we needed …[ read more ]
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Author Visit to Kennedy Middle School
Last week I spent a day and a half at Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino, CA. I shared with their 6th grade students (500 of them in groups of 60 at a time!) about my Ancient Elements series of books, The Bronze Dagger, The Alabaster Jar, and The Sliver Coin. They also got to see and touch my …[ read more ]
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