reading

Read to Me!

When was the last time you were engaged with a book outside of a school setting? With the middle school students I interacted with, reading was predominantly limited to “school books”, yet they could tell […]

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Houdini the Hamster Illustrated by Lindsey Balducci

Children’s Book on Hamster Care

I am passionate about the ethical treatment of animals. Proper care of rodents–hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, etc.–is not widely understood within our society. Further, rodents are often regarded as vermin or pests with little intellectual […]

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