Saturday, July 16, 2011. At Cozy Up and Read. And so long to The Almost Librarian. Monday, September 13, 2010. The latest issue of Literacy Lava is available! To access Literacy Lava, please follow.

About Beth, Mike and this blog. Contact Beth Finke to book an appearance. The first Chicago high school built to serve an exclusively African-American student population opened its doors in 1935, and Wanda Bridgeforth, a 93-year-old writer in my Wednesday memoir-writing class, was a freshman there that year. Wanda at her 90th birthday party with the writers.

Your kid like trains? December 4, 2014. Your kid like trains? Have I got the book for him! 8221; We see the train eager to play with his boy.

Happy Faces Chicago is about art, artists, and culture in Chicago. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Chicago International Sculpture in Lincoln Park. As part of Chicago International Sculpture. The Chicago Park District erected large sculptures along the lake front. Here are some of them scattered near North Avenue. Sunday, March 28, 2010.

Magical Minds Studio is an early childhood creative development art studio. We specialize in visual and sensory art for children 18 months to 14 years of age. Monday, December 19, 2011. So much goes on at the studio, from Friday movie nights to Art Around the World classes. Thursday, August 4, 2011.

I grew up in Virginia, spent most of my summers in New Hampshire, and moved to the Chicago area after college. I have lived in Oak Park, IL, since 1978 with my husband, Chuck. We have two boys, now grown. When I was 16 I took art in summer school. I was reading Lord of the Rings. I also began to paint in watercolors again. I drew in my journals. I started buying unlined journ.

Monday, October 1, 2012. This is the first in a series of posts exploring new developments in the Open Studio Process. The power of intention as a personal practice to guide art making and as a means of navigating our reality is well known to those of us who have made the practice a part of our lives. The OSP holds that intention is the way we connect to the Creative Source. What does this mean? I wanted to know.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The little horse has been on strike until the writer catches up the story to the present. Stay tuned- the writer is gathering energy to tell a sad and mysterious tale and to continue the story of the little horse. Monday, April 28, 2008. It is time to move on with this story, since I am quite behind in the action. It felt good to be able to climb out of the backpack and stretch his legs after a long r.