‎"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steven Jobs, Stanford commencement address, 2005.

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Melissa Singleton Josef is an MLIS K-12 certified teacher librarian and author of The Suburban Barnyard as well as an environmental education resource blog called The Green Room. She is passionate about education and information literacy in all of its evolving formats as well as good old traditional love of reading. She is eclectic in her interests from science to art and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with an undergraduate BAAS degree majoring in English/Business and Technical Writing and minoring in Fine Arts. She has traveled throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Europe and speaks both French and Japanese. She is currently in search of a full-time teaching position and spends her time writing novels, children's books, blogging, job searching, and substitute teaching PT in all teaching positions K-12.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Straight from the Jar...: ALA and New Orleans

Ingrid Law, excellent award-winning author, well-known for her book Savvy, spoke with Jennifer Holm and Kirby Lawson at ALA during one of the workshops on what it's like to be an author who has won awards for their first book in writing successive books. All three authors have written further award-winning books. It was exciting to hear them speak. They were all filled with passion and energy and a true love for their craft. Check out Ingrid's blog!


Straight from the Jar...: ALA and New Orleans: My time in New Orleans was great fun. ALA overflowed with amazing librarians, teachers, authors, publishers, and friends. I managed to do a ...

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