I can’t remember the circumstances of that visit with my former history teacher. Maybe I was collecting makeup work for my brother, Chet, who was in her class at the time. Or maybe I just stopped in to say “Hello.” My high school teachers felt a little like my extended family to me, especially now… Continue Reading
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Hearing Langston’s Smile – Kristen Witucki in Huff Post
Gemma Open Door author of The Transcriber, writing for Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers: Hearing Langston’s Smile More from Kristen at her own website. Tweet Pin It… Continue Reading
Writers as Archaeologists
Elizabeth Mosier on teaching elementary school children in the Pennsylvania Young Writers Day program: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120617_Making_history__one_word_at_a_time.html Tweet Pin It… Continue Reading
Writing for the Reluctant Reader
by Elizabeth Mosier When Brian Bouldrey, editor for Gemma Open Door, asked me to contribute to the series designed to promote adult literacy, I was thrilled to be anywhere near Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby, whose books had been published in the original Open Door lineup in the UK. Writing for Open Door was a… Continue Reading