by Joan Waites Most of us are familiar with the classic children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, first publis...

by Alison Ashley Formento School may have started where you live, or it will start soon, but you can keep summer memories strong and ce...

by Alison Ashley Formento It’s summer and many of us are going on vacation or taking time to visit friends or relatives. You may be t...

by Alison Ashley Formento It’s the time of year for snowmen and you might be singing about Frosty, laughing at Olaf in FROZEN, the...

by Laura Krauss Melmed  This is the first in a series of planned posts on poetic devices.   I’ll start with alliteration, the repetition ...

by Mary Quattlebaum We tend to take the letters of the alphabet for granted.  Face it, we’ve sung the ABC song umpteen times as parents or...

by Joan Waites Back in November of last year, I wrote a blog entry featuring a “story starter” exercise which used a single prop to jump-s...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Midsummer gardens in my northwest D.C. neighborhood are splashed with day-glow orange lilies, sunny black-eyed susan...