In the Coming Year, Let’s… Nurture our creative selves. Cherish family and friends, laughing with them often. Savor and share the earth’s beauty, the wealth of diverse cultures and languages, the wonder of art, and bookjoy. Participate in growing a … Continue reading →
Hi Girls and Boys, I hope you enjoyed a good summer and that reading good books was part of the fun. I feel so lucky to be a reader and to have public libraries I can visit. I also feel … Continue reading →
Stubborn mountain, rock anchor, you grew from cuentos carried at night in the wind’s dry hands, seed pebbles that became your wide-hipped, unmovable contours, curves where finches and secretive spiders nest. Poet of ancient seas and baritone fossils, of trilobites … Continue reading →
My daughter Libby Martinez and I wrote PLEDGE, inspired by our aunt Ygnacia Delgado, whom my siblings and I (and our children) called Lobo. In this book, Libby asks Lobo why she wants to be a citizen. Lobo answers, “The … Continue reading →
