ERIN CONWAY

The scales are even. Everything I marked in before is now the same as after. Ten years. With the questions that surround the choices...

The Anishnabek (Ojibwe) teaching of the dream catcher is a story of a spider’s protective gift. A grandmother, Nokomis, sees that her...

Pegrebin begins her chapter describing the historical basis of Purim and acknowledges holiday tension, per usual.  In her words, “Purim...

On his walk, Solo’s head is always down.  His nose moves in circles and sweeps across wet ground.  It slides up and back across fallen...

I knew where my first name came from. Erin I liked. “We named you Erin. Liked it when I heard it on the Waltons. But, if we hadn’t...

I loved Tu B’Shvat the first time I learned about it. The Jewish version of ‘Earth Day’ resonated perfectly with identities that I...

Throughout January, I participated a numbing amount of times in the same icebreaker. ‘What are your goals for 2025?’  I didn’t have one,...

Multicultural Children’s Book Day   Read Your World 2025 (1/30/25) is in its 13th year! Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen founded this...

This was my second year participating in this review process. This year I took a more intentional approach when it came to the summer...