Welcome to my home...

Though I think of world as my home, at the moment, I am comfortably settled in my grass-roofed cottage in Vermont. We call it the Roof Tree House. But the world is the focus of my work, be it writing and translating books for children, for adults, or creating an innovative way to teach a vital language.

I love the world in all her stunning beauty and complex ugliness. And reading is the best way I know to enter the minds and hearts of extraordinary strangers.

In these pages, discover more about my work, my thoughts and adventures. Link to our family’s recent blogs about living in Taiwan, with jaunts to New Zealand, Thailand, and taking the long way home, overland across China, Mongolia, Russia, and Europe.

You can link from here to a lot of amazing authors’ sites. The children’s literature community is wildly creative, and there are so many books to read…

Kindling Words has evolved to be an amazing professional retreat for published authors, illustrators and editors of children’s books. Check out its history and link to the KW site.

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