Today, a video of me reading my poem "Our Walk To School," was featured on fellow poet Michelle Schaub's Poetry Boost blog,...

Hello Friends! Yup, you guessed it, another poetry contest! But this time I get to use a bit more adult humor as this one isn't strictly...

Guess what?! Yup! Yet another writing contest! This time it is Vivian Kirkfield's #50PreciousWords Contest! (I know, you're thinking --...

Hooray! It’s time for another writing contest! This time, it’s Susanna Hill’s 6th Annual Valen-tiny Contest for Children’s Writers! The...

Hey Everyone, Man, the whole pandemic thing is starting to get OLD, am I right? I just realized tomorrow is Groundhog Day, which I think...

Hello Everyone! As many of you know by now, I love writing contests! Prompts and deadlines are my JAM! (Otherwise, I seriously could...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...