Vijaya Bodach

This was the first time that our regional SCBWI had a weekend conference instead of the usual one-day jam packed affair. It was terribly wel...

The chickadee, the chipmunk, the finch, the squirrel, the woodpecker and Fiona (not pictured because I don't have a picture of her ea...

The gift of time followed by a multitude of writing assignments: test passages, magazine articles, sample chapters for books. I've put ...

We had rain, hail, sleet and snow this weekend. The baseball games were canceled and we had the unexpected gift of time at home. Oh, we did ...

Fiona tagged me ... bad, bad girl because she knows I'm up to my eyeballs with writing assignments, but this is a fun Friday night brea...

I adore a book that packs so much in so little. The Monarch's Progress: Poems with Wings by Avis Harley is one such gem. Ms. Harley br...

We ended Spring Break with a wonderful movie by Eric Valli. Although this is fictional, it captures the way of life of the Dolpopa people of...

Let us, then, be up and doing With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. -- Henry Wadsworth Lon...

.... or Christmas? This weekend was for building snow-bunnies, snow-forts and sledding. A most magical beginning to our Spring Break. I kno...

This is harder than I thought. It's quite one thing to revise 150 words, making each word shine. I can't even think about the words ...