Hello Everyone! Oh, how I love writing contests! There's nothing like a hard deadline and "rules" to kick my creativity into high gear! S...

I'm thrilled to announce that I've signed the contract for my debut picture book, BRAINSTORM, scheduled to be published in the Summer of ...

Hi Everyone! I'm so excited to share that my poem, "Our Walk To School" was published in a wonderful new children's anthology called HOP ...

It's been a while since I posted on my blog! Hello again friends! I hope you are all doing well! I'm entering a writing contest called #F...

Hello Everyone! It's the very last day of the poem-a-day challenge! Whew! What a month! I have never in my life produced so much (30 poe...

Hello everyone! It's the second-to-last day of the poem-a-day challenge!!! I can't believe I've almost made it to the end! Today's word i...

It's Day 28 of the poem-a-day challenge and BOY am I feeling the strain! Today's word is "discretion." I was having MAJOR trouble coming ...

Hi Everyone! Welcome to day 25 of the poem-a-day challenge! Today I was given the word "Escape" as my challenge word. As you may have not...

Heading into the home stretch of the poem-a-day challenge... Today's word is "Erase" but I took some creative liberty and changed it to "...

Hello everyone! Welcome to day 22 of the poem-a-day challenge! Whoa man, today's word, "malfunction," seriously gave me trouble (with a c...

It's day 21 of the poem-a-day challenge! Today I was given the word "Frumpy," which is a word that, as it so happens, describes me perfec...

Wow, I made it for 20 days with this poem-a-day challenge! Who would've thought?! After yesterday's poem, full of deep, dark, depressing ...

Today's poem-a-day challenge word is "Reorganize." This poem originally started out super silly, but my thoughts today kept diverting int...

It's day 18 of the poem-a-day challenge! My word is "Snippet." I'm not sure how or why, but that word led me to write this poem/story, ab...

Here we go again, folks! Today's word is "mask. Please enjoy today's poem, fresh from my "Tales From Quarantine" collection. :)

It's Day 16 of the poem-a-day challenge and my word was "Bamboozled!" Not sure what to say about this poem, except that you'll see I clea...

It's day 15 of the poem-a-day challenge! Today's word is "Fool" and, as an '80s child, I can't hear the word without thinking of "The A T...

It's poem-a-day challenge day 14! The word given to me was "Impact," but I fudged it a little to help with the rhyme (I'm allowed!). As y...

Hello Everyone! Thanks for sticking with me! Today's poem-a-day challenge word was "Finish." In this poem, I confess one of my deepest, ...

Hello! It's been almost a week since one of my poem-a-day poems referenced the pandemic, so you knew one had to be coming, right!? My giv...