Practical articles for educators: Free Multimedia Classroom Tools: Blogs in the Classroom Free Multimedia Classroom Tools: Part II Technologies in the Modern Classroom Brief esoterica and "How To" Spring 2009 Facts of Reflexology Reiki Training How  to: Become a Psychic Detective Combine Flower Essences Make a Flower Essence Assessment  Make Bathtub Tea Perform Billet Reading Strengthen Clairvoyant Ability Understand the Body's Chakras General articles for living... Burn the Wick at Both Ends, The Dabbling Mum, 2006 Learn how to start a low-risk, low-investment candle making business at home. See You Online! Tips for Using College Library Resources, Back2College, 2005 Even returning adult students can make the most of their library's online resources. Languaging With the Libraries: Bringing International Students Into the Fold, Versed, The American Library Association's Diversity Bulletin, 2004 Being an international student can be challenging...but what about being an international scholar's wife who barely speaks English? Simple Solutions for Soothing Soaks, Garden and Hearth, 2004 Anyone can create luxurious and inexpensive bath salts for the most soothing soaks! Hurray for Hummus, A Lunchbox Hero! VegFamily, 2005 American students are making poor nutritional choices. Part recipe, part social commentary, and part suggestion, this article provides an easy lunchbox alternative. Encyclopedias: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005). I contributed multiple entries to this impressive 5-volume publication. The African American National Biography (Oxford Press, 2008) This huge undertaking by Harvard University features both familiar and unknown African Americans. I've contributed multiple times to this ongoing series over the last three years, including entries on children's writer Mildred Taylor and mysterious 20th Century playwright Carrie Law Morgan Figgs.