I've just returned home from Vermont College of Fine Arts where I teach in the Writing for Children and Young Adults. We had a fantast...

I'm thrilled with the supreme court ruling against DOMA. This is a tide that can't be stopped. Last fall my son, living in Minneso...

More digital proofs arrived in the mail this week. First came all of the pages, every beautiful image. There's something breathtaking ...

Dorothea Lange is in the final prepress stages. Caitlin Kirkpatrick at Chronicle Books sent me one huge page of what the printer is coming ...

I'm fascinated by courageous people -- probably because I do not have a courageous bone in my body. I'm a total chicken. I espec...

I've spent an amazing weekend in Selma, Alabama at the Jubilee. 48 years ago,kids and young adults joined the adults in Selma to fight f...

 I just had the most amazing school visit at Hamlin School in San Francisco. It's an all girls' school, begun by Sara Dix Hamlin i...