Judy Lindquist

There is definitely a shift underway. Stores and retail establishments have always put out their Christmas inventory in early fall. Some...

Like most Americans, I have always celebrated Veterans Day. However, this year, my awareness of, and appreciation for veterans, has...

Last month I had the honor of one of my yet-to-be-published manuscripts winning big in the 2023 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition....

This is the second year our elementary school has had a Student Writing Club. Every Tuesday after school, we have 43- 4th and 5th...

Last night my husband and I attended the Royal Palm Literary Awards Banquet. An annual state-wide gathering of writers and other...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being a presenter at the Florida Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. I presented a session...

Time saving. What an interesting concept. Time is not like money that you can save and store until you need it. It ticks away at the...

Banned Books Week starts today! This is a week designed to raise awareness of censorship and to celebrate the freedom to read. First...

It was a sunny Saturday morning and I was struggling with a choice…do I attend the Writer’s Workshop I had penciled in on my calendar, or...

The message came through on my phone. “Call me this weekend if you can.” It was not an unexpected text. It was from a high school friend....

This last week, as part of my role as liaison between our elementary school and the local university, I was able to get ten college...

My daughter recently told me that she was giving up the pursuit of Work-Life Balance, and was instead going to strive for Work-Life...

It was almost exactly a year ago when I posted a blog imploring the public to stop attacking teachers. Begging people to resist the urge...

“Two heads are better than one.” “Many hands make light work.” It does not take much digging to find quotes touting the value of working...

This last week I found out that my latest, as yet unpublished, middle grades novel was a semi-finalist in a respected writing...

As our new school year gets underway, there continues to be a teacher shortage. Many years in the making, there are clearly many factors...

Summer is over. Yes, I realize that it is still the last couple of days of July and that the official first day of autumn is not until...

Induction. Onboarding. Orientation. There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the process of helping someone new to a...

I opened an email this week from one of my former students. She was one of my graduating 5th graders, and also was part of our school’s...

I have had an incredibly busy summer so far. It has been 25 days since school got out for the year, and I have had 15 days scheduled...