karen halvorsen schreck

Just returned this past Friday from the Illinois Reading Council Conference in Springfield, Illinois.  This visit, I did not go to the incredible, state-of-the-art Abraham Lincoln Museum (Greg, M & T, and I did that last year over spring break.)  But I did . . . catch up with other Illinois authors, like my good friend, [...]

today i started emptying our cluttered china cabinet, in preparation for filling it up again, only more so.  It’s spring, or an illusion, here in Chicagoland. Out with the old, in with the new.  Or in this case, in with the other old. Only child that I am, I inherited a fair amount of fragile [...]