It’s free! Take a walk or a bike ride (trail map) over the West Duwamish Waterway. If the swing span for boat traffic opens, you will have to stop. You will want to stop anyway. Watch the boat and train traffic below the bridge. Gaze at Mount Rainier to the south and our fair city to…
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Elena Hartwell & No Talking Dogs Press
As I head off to the Tri-TESOL conference to present No Talking Dogs: Easy Literature for Adults, I am pleased to share an interview with Elena Hartwell on Arc of a Writer. Elena began her interview with a question about writing easy novels for adults learning to read English. It was a pleasure to explain…
Who Reads Short Books in Easy English?
Last week I sent my eighty-eight-year-old mother The Good Friends Series and The Old House Series. I wanted to show her what Arleen and I had been up to, and I thought the books might appeal. All her life, my mother has been a book worm, but now reading fat tomes is sadly out of…
Why I Wrote Short Books in Easy English
Two students nodded with sad knowledge of physical abuse. They shared the term “restraining order” with their class. They had just read this passage in James and Barry Study Black History: Tears fill Mrs. Lewis’s eyes. Her hand touches her cut lip. “Please, call me Kayla,” she says. “A beautiful name,” Lera says. “I am…
NO TALKING DOGS PRESS 