The Poetry Pool

I love a good laugh. I laugh every day. I even make a point of giv­ing oth­ers cause to chuck­le, even if it’s some­times at my own expense. Laugh­ter is cleans­ing, heal­ing, and nec­es­sary. God him­self has a phe­nom­e­nal sense of humor. He made us, did­n’t he? Yes, laugh­ter is to be appre­ci­at­ed, enjoyed. That […]

Celebrity Children’s Authors and the Publishers Who Love Them, Part 2

I must con­fess, I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly annoyed by African Amer­i­can celebri­ties who jump into the children’s book fray because “there are no books for our chil­dren,” to which I respond, Huh? Spike Lee made such a claim in a year when I, alone, had five books pub­lished. So, I take it he is not only unaware […]