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I completed Kevin and His Grandma, my fifth book. My objective of writing, illustrating, and self-publishing this book was to be creative. I chuckle when my students ask me how much money I have made on my books. I do not even market them and am certainly not ready to get others to buy them! I am striving to write and illustrate well. Perhaps by my 25th book I will be satisfied. In the meantime,…

My mom is visiting from South Korea. We were walking the dogs and came across a large feather on the sidewalk. It inspired me.

I was teaching my sixth-grade students a mini-lesson on writing Haiku. 5-7-5 syllabic pattern. Nature. I considered it a review lesson since we wrote some last year, so I was surprised at all their questions. “How many syllables in ‘miles’?” One. “Does it have to be about nature?” Yes. “Please, can we write about something besides nature?” I envision 33 Haikus about flowers. Ugh. “OK, I’ll…