You know that Bare Naked Ladies song “If I Had a Million Dollars?”
Well, if I had a million dollars, I’d spend it the way Maxine and Jonathan Marshall did. Their Marshall Fund brings smart book authors and well-versed poets to town on a regular basis. And twice a year, the butterflies come, too.
The butterfly pavilion [...]

Finally, success with a classroom craft.
There isn’t time to go down the list of turds I’ve dropped in the artistic punchbowl over the years (the time my mom and I tried to get first graders to emulate Picasso and Matisse comes to mind) but I must say that I’m feeling quite proud of the sugar [...]

OK, so I don’t want to go all Martha on your ass or anything, but if you’re looking for a fun and easy craft to celebrate the Halloween season and Day of the Dead — one that even a kindergartener with Down syndrome can do! — go to www.mexicansugarskull.com and buy a mold.
Here are some [...]

When it looked like the creation of sugar skulls (a tradition honoring Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead — celebrated November 1, All Saints Day, in Mexico among other places) was iminent, I called Kathleen.
I have two gringa friends — tall blonde women who have long been inexplicably obsessed with all things [...]