A foggy morning in Ocala, which I’m certain will burn off quickly. I’m at Bellview Middle School today with the very fun Leola LeHew (I love her name) who picked me up at the hotel bright and early and whisk me to the school for a staff breakfast and book signing.  I was presented with [...]

Up at 3 to catch a flight to Orlando. I had a wonderful 24 hours at the farm with my family. Flight out of PDX is delayed because of a battery problem. What’s interesting to me is that when they make the announcement no one sitting here waiting to board reacts at all. We are [...]

I was at Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School today speaking to 6th and 7th Grade hostedbuSandylee Singletary amd Robin Willis. CCM is a cool school. It’s connected to NC State. The students are bussed in from all over and they get to use the University facilities. At the airport now waiting for a flight to [...]

I was at Apex Middle School with librarians Linda Schmidt and Donna McAlonen speaking to a thousand very cool 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. After the big presentions I had lunch with 30 8th graders to discuss to “Peak.”. The group had wonderful questions about the novel and about writing. This evening I spoke at [...]

I was at Salem Middle School today with the fabulous librarians Debbie Dupree and Tory Borowsky. I spoke to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students…all great kids, well prepared with wonderful questions.  The art class made very cool book covers with titles and summaries of their proposed books. I want to thank Yosef and Chase [...]

Writing and posting on the fly today. Headed to Richmond, VA to visit schools, via Atlanta, GA. I guess I should mention this, because it’s kind of related to writing… I bought a new laptop yesterday. This will not be huge news to anyone who knows me, especially Marie, as I usually buy a new [...]

I guess I’m working the graveyard shift now… I was asleep by 6PM last night and up at 3AM this morning working on I,Q2 after a decent amount of sleep. I spoke at Westbrook Intermediate in Friendswood, TX this morning, and Clear Lake Intermediate in Houston, TX this afternoon. Westwood did a “read it forward” [...]

Up at 3 and on my way to Texas for the week after a day at the farm… Yesterday after packing, or I should say re-packing, I spent the rest of the day transcribing what I had scratched into the Moleskine the previous week into my laptop. To my horror I discovered several pages that [...]

I’m at Fire Prairie Middle School this morning speaking to 5th and 6th grade. I’ve been here before and it’s great to be back with super librarian, Joyce McMurray,  and her fabulous students. The 6th grade was joined by Cler-Mont Elementary 4th grader who were bussed over for the presentation. After signing I was back [...]

I was up early working on I,Q2, then off to Chillicothe Middle School to speak to 6th and 7th grade for Laurinda Davison and Pat Nichols. This is my 3rd visit for Laurinda. We were joined by some students from Chula School as well.  Laurinda is amazing!  She manages to beg, borrow, and steal every [...]