When You Wish Upon a Star
In the Walt Disney movie, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket sang “When you wish upon a star your dreams come true.” Many people have dreams, but how many people do what it
Jacob Stroyer: A Voice Against Slavery
My novel, Dark Enough to See the Stars, about a slave boy who runs away on the Underground Railroad opens at a train station. Twelve-year-old Moses watches his mother board a
Show Don’t Tell
Being a fiction writer, the following axiom reverberates in my brain every time I read a book or see a movie: show; don’t tell. From day one, every fiction guru
Emancipation Proclamation: 150 Years Old
Well the other day I found another treasure to add to my “book and blog booty” in a copy of the latest Reader’s Digest. The magazine boasted on its cover “A year of incredible
What I Learned from Huck Finn
In August of 2011, the Susquehanna River flooded during Hurricane Irene, causing much damage in Pennsylvania. No, I didn’t go rafting on the river while it overflowed its banks. But