For our July/August issues, I interviewed an ice cream scientist (best job EVER) for ASK and wrote about animals that count for Click!

In April, I “interviewed” Eba and her owner/handler Dr. Deborah Giles for Click magazine. Eba and Giles are doing great work as part of the Southern Resident Killer Whale Project, and Cricket Media has now made the whole article available. You can read it here: http://info.cricketmedia.com/rs/357-NUK-896/images/CLK2004_20_EbaTheK9Dog.pdf

Creating a year’s worth of magazines takes a lot of love, hard work, and planning. I usually telecommute, but once a year I travel to the Cricket Media editorial offices to participate in planning the ASK issues for the next year. The ASK team spends the day talking about what we’d like to see in next year’s issues: everybody comes with their top ten, and then we discuss until we have a consensus. It’s one of my favorite times of the year!

February was all about food at the Cricket Media magazines! ASK took a look at how the ancient Maya fed their empire, and I wrote about Cerén, a Maya farming village. For Click’s five-year-old readers, I described what goes into making the food we eat for lunch.

All nine of Cricket Media’s magazines were awarded Parents’ Choice Gold Awards this year! So proud to do my part as a contributing editor for Click, ASK, and Muse!