Congratulations to all the spring graduates! I hope that my book ZING! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators & Students can be a good gift especially for educators and librarians. It’s hard to believe that I had the opportunity to write this book, part memoir/part creativity strategies, in an Italian castle in Umbertide.

It’s a challenge for each of us, isn’t it, to steadily develop our inventive selves?
Castle photos courtesy of Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Pietro Biraschi and Euro Vinti: www.civitella.org/mission.aspx. On right, Pat and her husband, Vern Scarborough at Civitella Ranieri Castle.