I have had the honour and privilege of reading “Reg Goes Swimming” to many, many children over the past 6 months since my book Reg Goes Swimming was published. This is the greatest joy of being a writer of children’s literature: the children, themselves. I just adore them. I am drawn to their wonder and engagement and enthusiasm for Reg, as a character. They make it all worthwhile.
On humility. Are we ever truly as humble as we portray ourselves to be? Even when we say, “humbly speaking…” or “with the greatest of humility” or the more coarse, “I don’t mean to brag…,” can we ever be that which we say we are: humble? I am really struck on this because I study …
There is a book sitting on the bench in my upstairs hallway that I plan to read a little before shutting my eyes tonight, that is if I can get up to bed earlier than my usual 12:30 a.m. Written by author Tim Kimmel, it is called In Praise of Plan B- Moving from “What …
