How Does Your Garden Grow?

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized

I just planted more goodies for my garden this weekend. Now I’ve got blueberries, tomatoes (yellow, cherry, heirloom, and regular), bell peppers, cucumbers, basil, summer squash, purple potatoes (yes, they’re really purple), and zucchini on the vegetable...

Yes, It’s a Baby

by | Mar 19, 2010 | Uncategorized

A while back, after I had just finished my first draft of Hatshepsut, a friend asked how long it took to get the whole thing on paper. My answer? Roughly nine months of concerted writing. (The first year I only managed 100 pages and half of that was cut.) Her...

Lessons From Mexico, Part I

by | Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized

I’m baaaaaack!I know you all missed me. I swear I thought of you when I went to check blogs and remembered the cruise ship charges $.55 a minute for internet. I spend about an hour a day on blogs, on a seven day cruise… You do the math. But now I’m...

Student Bloopers

by | Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized

I’m hoping everyone can use a little giggle today. For your reading pleasure, I present my very own Student Bloopers! 1. Last year, I was grading my students’ tests on Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. One of the questions asked them to identify ziggurats....

Writers Are Like Beavers

by | Mar 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

WARNING: This post is a result of too much grading before Spring Break and my brain working to detox from intense lessons on the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. I’m slightly unhinged. Beavers are cool. The little critters (actually not so big- I once mistook...