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A second Illinois SCBWI member has stepped up to join in the effort to help diverse authors and illustrators attend the annual conference on Nov ...
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Illinois Writers and Illustrators conference scholarship
On November 5, the Illinois chapter of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is having its annual conference, Prairie Writer’s and Illustrator’s ...
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I Am An Anomaly
I volunteer at my town’s Senior Citizen’s center a few times a week, working in the computer lab associated with our public library. There I ...
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I’m fighting racism, one step at a time
Yesterday after reading an article on Facebook about police dismissing the protests of a young black male because…well, because he was a young black male ...
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Writing cross-culturally
I am currently (July 2016) teaching a class of authors about writing diverse characters, my Spice of Diversity class. I received a student question that ...
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Empathy – Diversity class
Today I’m blogging about the E-word. Empathy. You know, that ability to see things from another point of view. To understand and at least temporarily share ...
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Even if no one paid me
I laughingly call writing my sub-minimum wage job. Counting the time involved in coming up with an idea, writing the first draft, revising, editing and ...
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Removing The Masks
Earlier today fellow author Gabrielle Luthy asked me a question about a post showing a bunch of women at a Trump rally wearing t-shirts saying ...
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#ILLibrary15 Illinois Library Association conference panel on Diversity
In October 2015, I was moderated a panel of authors and illustrators of diverse books at the Illinois Library Association meeting in Peoria, Il. B ...
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