He Calls Us “Family”– An Afternoon with Ashley Bryan
It all started last fall. The iconic illustrator Ashley Bryan visited the Mazza Museum in Ohio. It was the third time I’d met him, and each time I walked away more amazed and inspired than the last. As...
View ArticleGood News from Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticlePicture Books Matter and Everything Old is New Again – Mazza Tuesday Morning
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleTuesday Afternoon (Not the Moody Blues Version)
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleKazumpets and Other Powerful Ideas
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleChildren’s Literature’s Dynamic Duo
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleDoesn’t Anyone Play the Didgeridoo Anymore?
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleWhen Did You Stop Drawing?
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleJonathan Bean: Artistic Chameleon
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View ArticleA Mazza Journey
Michelle Houts is blogging this week from The Mazza Museum’s Summer Conference. The Mazza Museum is located in Findlay, Ohio and houses one of the largest collections of original art from children’s...
View Article52 Letters in a Year Challenge – It Just Keeps Growing!
About a year and a half ago, I rebuilt my website (well, I didn’t actually do it. The great goddesses who do such things did it for me) and when I did, I added a page highlighting something I love:...
View ArticleWriting for Children – Where Do I Begin?
It’s been 20 years since I first asked that question. It’s been 14 years since I first earnestly began seeking the answer. It’s been 12 years since I attended my first children’s literature conference....
View ArticleMy 2017 Word of the Year
Last year at this time, I chose my Word of the Year. It was balance. I chose the word because I knew what 2016 had in store for me, and though most of it would be good, it would be a lot. I mean, a...
View ArticleA Word (or Two) with Phil Bildner – Reposted from The Mixed-Up Files of...
Along with this blog, I have the privilege of blogging for The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors. I’m one of more than 30 author-bloggers who take turns providing content relevant to the...
View ArticleA New Post on the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors
Hey, all! I’ve been really bad about keeping up my personal author blog here. But being a blogger for the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors keeps me blogging every six weeks or so. Over at the...
View ArticleRetreat and Write: Children’s Writers Retreats
I love this time of year! I’ve always embraced Back-to-School season, as a mom and as an elementary school speech pathologist. I love new Sharpies. I love blank notebooks. I love that the end of August...
View ArticleIn Danger’s Path: A Human Response
It’s been a heavy week. A week of bad news. Hurricane Harvey in Texas, wildfires in the Northwest, an earthquake in Mexico. Political turmoil that just worsens every time I think it can’t get much...
View ArticleThe Morning Person I Want(ed) To Be
At least a dozen times in my life I’ve tried to reinvent myself as a Morning Person. First, in high school, when I began to drink coffee milk and sugar with a tablespoon of coffee. I thought it would...
View ArticleCelebrate the First Down
I grew up with college football. Correction: I grew up with Buckeye football. I was actually born a Nittany Lion. My father’s first teaching position was at Penn State. I don’t remember much about...
View ArticlePaper Love: Putting it in Words
I love mail. Letters, post cards, notes, photos… anything but bills and rejection letters! So, when it was my turn to blog for The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors, I decided to share a few words...
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