Adam Shepard is a very interesting man. That’s him to the right with a mustache that he grew as part of his list of things he wanted to do in his life. This list became a new book, One Year Lived, where Adam recounts a year of his life that he spent traveling and reading. [...]

Here is a really cool AND SUPER EASY way to help people in the world. Have you heard of Meals on Wheels? Meals on Wheels is a program that delivers or provides meals for seniors who can’t afford them or who are homebound and can’t get out to get their own food. To find out [...]

Through my job with WOW! Women On Writing, I get to interview many interesting writers. One writer I recently interviewed, Caleb Collier, won 2nd place in WOW!’s flash fiction contest. (To see the interview, click here.) But I’m not writing about him today because he placed in a flash fiction contest. I am writing about [...]

*Picture book, fiction, for preschoolers through 2nd graders *Two superhero boys as main characters *Rating: Boys will L-O-V-E Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug, which teaches the importance of recycling without preaching. Great idea! Short, short summary: A clean, little town has a big problem–Litterbug Doug, his rotten trash, and his rat friends. Litterbug Doug doesn’t [...]

Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter is one of those special books that we should all share with children at home and in our classrooms. It is the true story of a girl in Afghanistan, Nasreen, who did not speak to anybody after the Taliban took over, and she lived [...]

What some children go through in our world is unbelievable, scary, tragic. It is hard for some of us, especially in the United States and Canada, to imagine how life can be like this–how people can kill one another over religion and race, how people can be so greedy to kill for land or cash [...]

Besides Half the Sky, which I have discussed several times on here (this book is about more than just human trafficking, but includes chapters on it), I decided to provide more resources about the subject. As the founders of The Emancipation Network, which I wrote about yesterday, can attest to, hearing or reading about actual [...]

Today’s post is going to be rather short, as I am on my way back from a trip to Mexico with some friends to celebrate a 40th birthday, and have a full day of traveling. Anyway, I want to tell you about an awesome place where you can find gifts for your loved ones and [...]

photo by hdptcar www.flickr.com Currently, I am reading a very powerful book that is touching my life deeply and calling me to action. The book is called Half the Sky written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn,and it’s about women’s oppression around the world and how to combat it. I plan to start another [...]