“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in…

For the third year, I’m going to participate in Tara Lazar’s Picture Book Idea Month. I love this year’s inspirational…

Last week I stopped at the campus bookstore in search of a gift. As a former bookseller, I’ve loathed the…

“An Autumn Idyll” by Francis Davis Millet [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsPage URLAttributionLife’s Seasonsby Keri Collins LewisSpring’s raptures,Summer’s rush.Calls to…

(Image from Barnes & Noble)Today is the launch of Mo Willem’s 20th Elephant & Piggie book. WOOT!Macaroni Kid is hosting…

One of the finest independent bookstores I’ve ever been privileged to visit sits quietly on an old, downtown street in…

At the Old Cemeteryby Keri Collins LewisCrumbling headstonesspongy earth beneath my feetsilent stones still speakOne of the technology instructors at…

“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and…

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no…

It’s Poetry Friday! Doraine Bennett has the round-up at Dori Reads. In January of this year I joined a conservation…