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I had a lovely experience again this year at the Tucson Festival of Books. So well organized and so many people to talk with about BOOKS!

I first met Rose when she was a student in a graduate level children’s literature class I was teaching for Northern Arizona University on the Navajo Nation. I wondered why Rose was seeking special certification in reading when she already…

I had a wonderful time visiting with librarians, the vitality of the book world, and presenting about poetry with Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell. And then there were the other authors I met, the rock stars!

Rodeo entrants choose steel-toed cowboy boots for maximum protection against large-hoofed animals.

That’s just the start of the many differences in cowboy boots. Different boots are made for different cowboy jobs.

Or, those boots are made for different

Ever since writing Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo, I’ve been amazed at discovering so many rodeo hotspots I had never imagined.

The 24^th  Panaewa Stampede Rodeo graced Hawaii’s Big Island in Feburary.  The second annual…

Oglala Sioux Tribal member Jordan “Slick” Phelps is a two-time bull riding world champion.

All this by age 19? This competitor started at age FOUR.

Cowboy up!

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With Sylvia Vardell, Janet Wong and librarians Ally Garcia and Marianne Follis, I was part of the “Cultural Connections: Celebrating Diversity with Picture Books and Poetry” presentation at the Public Library Association conference in Denver in April 2016. Sylvia and…

The first day of spring previews another notable date for me.

The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons debuted April 1, 2006.

Happy 10^th anniversary to a title I’m proud…