Nine Months to Go

Nine Months to Go

A listing for The Caged Graves went up on Amazon at the beginning of this month.  The release date is set for May 14, 2013.  That’s nine months from now.It seems like a long wait.  I could have a baby in that amount of time.  In fact, that might be...
Summer Goals Assessment 2012

Summer Goals Assessment 2012

No. 9 Mine in Lansford, PAToday is the last day of my summer vacation. Tomorrow will be my first day of teacher in-service, and next Monday, students arrive for their first day.  It has been an unusually long summer, because we had no snow days to make up in...
A Tourist in Mexico

A Tourist in Mexico

This is the last post about Mexico – I promise!  But I’ve told you what the trip did for me as a writer, I marveled at the history, and now I just want to share a few tourist-y things.The lobby of the Villas Arqueologicas TeotihuacanThe Mexican people were warm...
A Historical Look at Teotihuacan

A Historical Look at Teotihuacan

The Aztecs named this Avenue of the Dead, mistaking the temples for tombs. A lot of people mistake Teotihuacan as an Aztec site. In fact, this city was already ancient and abandoned when the Aztecs came to power. The Aztecs didn’t know who built it. They named it...
A Writer Looks at Teotihuacan

A Writer Looks at Teotihuacan

Yes, that’s me standing on some rocks next to a plastic construction fence. Of course, the rocks and fence are located here:That’s the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Last week’s adventure to Mexico was so incredible, I wasn’t sure where to start this...