That was the question and of course the answer was yes.  Erin and I were relaxing in Wilson on Friday morning when we got a call asking if we could do an assembly at a school in Silver Spring, Maryland that afternoon.  We realized that we couldn’t drive fast enough to get there that day […]

  While in Wilson, we met with Dr. Michael Bell, the executive director of the St. John Community Development Corporation.  Dr. Bell is passionate about revitalizing a neighborhood in Wilson where the majority of families fall below the poverty line.  As part of their holistic approach to improving the health and well- being of community […]

In June the Little Lib Lab made its first stop at the Hattie Daniels Day Care Center.  We were warmly welcomed at this wonderful facility that serves children from babies in day care to children who come for after school care.  Once again we were reminded of the importance of early literacy.      

Don’t you love our new vehicle?  When we dreamed it up, I called it the baby Lit Lab, but now we are calling it the Little Lit Lab.  How about L cubed for a fun name?  We added the Little Lit Lab to our fleet so Erin could have a Lit Lab vehicle in Seattle […]

Erin came to Winter Park in April and we made a visit to the Winter Park Day Nursery, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides affordable, high-quality early childhood education to children in the Winter Park area. Fees are based on family income and 89% of the students come from low income families. I volunteered at this school and […]

My mom introduced me to this wonderful group of senior citizens who give their time, talents and money to support the Hope Fund of Bethune Park, a non-profit organization that provides educational and cultural oportunities for at-risk children in Wimauma, Florida.  I brought the Lit Lab to their afterschool tutoring and mentoring program and loved […]

I was excited to be invited to the Fern Creek Elementary School in Orlando to be part of a school carnival last February.  We had taken the Lit Lab to a community festival in Detroit in October so I had a few literacy games already prepared: Toss a Ball into Your Favorite Reading Genre; Find all the Bookworms on the […]

My first solo visit was at the Mentoring for Academic Progress program at the South Street Ministry in Orlando.  MAP is an afterschool program for students in grades K-5 who are bused from a nearby elementary school.  Even though the group was small, it was challenging because the kids ranged in age from kindergarten to […]

What have we been doing since the end of our tour last October? We took time off from the Lit Lab adventure for Erin’s wedding. Erin went back to Seattle to start her student teaching and I kept the Lit Lab in Florida.  It was the start of our new Lit Lab phase. During the […]