Blog Posts

  • SCBWI Oakland

    If any of you reading this are writers for children, one of the best things you can do for your writing career is join SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and attend conferences. The one day conferences around the San Francisco Bay area are affordable and give writers (and illustrators) an opportunity to have… Read more

  • Pacific Coast Children’s Writing Workshop

    This past weekend I attended the Pacific Coast Children’s Writing Workshop for the second year. It takes place right here in Santa Cruz County, down at Pajaro Dunes. A wonderful editor, Regina Griffin from Egmont USA and equally amazing agent Fiona Kenshole from the Transatlantic Agency were the faculty and gave manuscript critiques. Two things… Read more

  • Cell Talk 1410

    Sunday I attended the American premiere of Dana Bagshaw’s Cell Talk 1410. Here’s an excellent review of the play by Lisa Jensen. I encourage Santa Cruzans to see it next Sunday at 4:00 at the First Congregational Church on High Street. Read more

  • Alaska Finale

    This account has gone on long enough. I’m going to consolidate the last few days of Luna and my Alaskan Dream cruise here. From Tracy Arm we went next to Hobart Bay, where we spent an active day hiking, kayaking, and driving little RTVs on bumpy old logging roads and little Zego motor boats on… Read more

  • Taku and Tracy Arm

    After a 3:00 a.m. stop in Juneau for restocking (I, for one, didn’t wake up) we docked at Taku, the site of a long abandoned salmon cannery. Piles of the building remained and a lot of rusted metal, making for interesting photos and exploration. The tide was out. Tides here vary by twenty-five feet, much… Read more

  • Glacier Bay

    Faith, our Huna Tlingit guide for the day, told the story of how her people lived on the broad valley, where Glacier Bay exists now, until, in the 1700’s, the glacier began to advance “as fast as a dog can run.” The people fled and by 1750 the glacier filled the whole valley. Vancouver recorded… Read more