“She is the light which draws all the butterflies,” says a teenaged boy of his mother in the book Mother without a Mask by Patricia Holton....

ESOL is for amateurs at Rabat American School. Here the norm is ETOL or EFOL -- English as a third or fourth language -- or more, I am rem...

It’s nobody’s job to shut the doors on the train speeding from Marakech to Fez in Morocco. Cars do-si-do, in a rhythmic two-step, doors wid...

This is Morocco -- food and frenzy. Everywhere "we are welcome," which generally means, do you want to buy? We were met at the a...

All December we were boxed in -- by the weather and by deadlines. Three deadlines for me for books upcoming in 2010: ZOMBIES! EVACUATE THE ...

I found this embedded on a friend's blog, so I did what all good researchers do, I copped the URL. Yesterday was a good day for a melt d...

If we're going to the beach, you have to put on shoes. I don't want to wear shoes. Here let me help you. I can't find my shoes. ...

Watch CBS News Videos Online The boy is right -- seems like everyone either loves or hates the president -- no middle ground. But unlike the...

Austinburg Elementary is old school. Literally. It is a very old school. Tall wooden windows, a gym with a real stage at one end, heavy wood...

Two fantastic schools in two weeks -- Central Elementary in Edgewater, MD and Garfield Middle School in Lakewood, OH. Today in Lakewood I me...

While trying to stay within the lines and not tearing the the pictures of baby Moses in the weeds with my crayon in Sunday school, I remembe...

This past weekend provided a luxury of reading time as we visited with our friends Sarah Willis and Ron Antonucci in the vicinity of Chautau...