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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! Happy St. Patrick's Day on Saturday, March 17th! Here's to having Irish blood coursin...

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our part...

WINTER SHADOWS was just nominated for the 2013 Young Reader’s Choice Award, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association made ...

The Girl at the Window - by Winslow Homer                                         What is Panic Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia? ...

Library Book Secrets In my library books, I often find that people have been scribbling and correcting with busy pencils many works...

Taken at 6:30 a.m. March 2, 2012 by Margaret Buffie "The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been ...

Photo by Margaret Buffie - "Snow Flower Cave"   February O Master-Builder, blustering as you go About your giant work, tr...

Morden Blush Roses, Copyright Margaret Buffie “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the s...

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? Fo...

Here are two readers' emails sent to me recently that I thought were wonderful. Thanks to Khushi and Christopher!  (These will be poste...

My daughter made these gorgeous sugar cookies with candy windows for her daughter's school class. What could be sweeter than that?...

FOR THE LOVE OF READING For Valentine's day I chose the quote below, because I reread all the books I love over and over...

Finally! Winter Shadows will be released in paperback on September 11, 2012, and is now available on Amazon for pre-ordering! ...

Charles Dickens "Only jolter-headed, conceited idiots suppose that volumes are to be tossed off like pancakes, and that any ...

"I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chai...

I was walking slowly past a particular house the other day (not the one above) - one that I often see on my now much shortened ...

I love this quote. It is so true! “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought ...

"It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and ...

Winter Shadows has just been just selected for the : VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) Top Shelf for Middle School Readers 2011 list ...

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”      W. Somerset Maugham ...