Embracing Inventiveness and Perseverance in Ethan Marcus Stands Up by Michele Weber Hurwitz

September 19

Often, all it takes is a crumb – a little morsel of a moment – to spark an idea for a book. One that may not even seem like a moment at the time. My high-energy son was in eighth-grade, studying for a science test. Let’s just say science did not come easy to this […]

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The Bookshelf by Michele Weber Hurwitz

October 08

After a long summer at home, my son is back at college. He’s a junior now, an upperclassman, but the goodbyes haven’t gotten any easier. At least for me. He’s attending the University of Iowa, the only college he wanted to go to, the only college he applied to, and luckily, the college he was […]

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Does Doing Good Really Do Any Good? by Michele Weber Hurwitz

April 08

We hear so much these days about paying it forward and doing random acts of kindness. I often see photos and posts about these types of efforts on Facebook and Twitter. They’re wonderful, and fill my heart with joy, that there is so much good in the world. A little boy who found a twenty […]

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