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  • Ursula Le Guin on writing

    Great article/interview with Ursula Le Guin on Slate’s Book Review site.

  • In Defense of Sparkle Science

    In Defense of Sparkle Science

    I have an article up on the New York Times’ The Motherlode section called In Defense of Sparkle Science. Some of my daughter’s lip gloss and lip scrub experiments I’m thrilled with this piece as I’ve wanted to place something at The Motherlode for a while. If you are interested in the topic, please take…

  • Blog train contribution!

    Blog train contribution!

    Joining a blog train courtesy of Melissa Duclos, one of my many and numerous online writing friends, who in this day and age are as real as any of my in-person writing friends. The blog train’s purpose is to get writers (and publications in some cases!) talking about what we’re working on and our process…

  • Now available for purchase – SNOW WHITE AND THE ASSASSIN’S GUILD! (Kindle only)

    Now available for purchase – SNOW WHITE AND THE ASSASSIN’S GUILD! (Kindle only)

    Now available for purchase – my short story SNOW WHITE AND THE ASSASSIN’S GUILD! I wrote this short story during a workshop I took with Mary Robinette Kowal called Writing on the Fast Track (I highly recommend the workshop! It was conducted via online google+ hangouts, small number of classmates, we did exercises and critiqued…

  • COVER REVEAL! Snow White and the Assassin’s Guild

    COVER REVEAL! Snow White and the Assassin’s Guild

    Check out my beautiful cover for my upcoming short story, SNOW WHITE AND THE ASSASSIN’S GUILD I’m so thrilled with the design, from Delilah Stephans Design. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks so much! Story goes on sale on Saturday, March 22, 2014.

  • High Tech Language Arts – 5th grade – Lesson summary

    High Tech Language Arts – 5th grade – Lesson summary

    Taught a lesson about short-form storytelling in High Tech Language Arts class today for 5th graders. Included the inimitable John Wiswell‘s Alligators By Twitter story, which I became of fan of before it was even published, having been on the editing staff at Flash Fiction Online magazine since its inception. (caution: some curse words present. With John’s…

  • Girls invent the neatest things!

    I am continually amazed at the wonderful content the A Mighty Girl team comes up with, curating from all over the web but also adding in links to resources and additional information. They’ve become one of my primary go-to sources for great stories about girls doing awesome things all over the globe. This latest story…

  • Dear World — about kids and science

    Dear World: I want you to know that the effort required to get children, in particular girls, interested in science is really rather basic. Engage with them. Talk to them like they are real people instead of very small idiots, and answer their questions. Even using humor is fine, as the Australians have done (those…

  • LEGO robotics and girls and awesomeness

    LEGO robotics and girls and awesomeness

    This past fall I had the opportunity to coach a LEGO Robotics team through the FIRST LEGO League, aka FLL. In short, it was *awesome.* I coached a team of 7 girls, all Girl Scouts with the Girls Scouts of Northern IL, all fourth grade students at Da Vinci Academy in Elgin, IL. The Girl…

  • Media and Design Club for Kids Meeting 2

    Media and Design Club for Kids Meeting 2

    Media and Design Club for KidsMeeting 2 Activity 1: Door InvestigationActivity Objective: Evaluate design choices by touring the school and counting the different types of door styles we encounter. Discussion: This was a hands-on exercise where we walked around the whole school and noted and counted the different door designs we saw. I had the…