I've been meditating for over 20 years. Sometimes I listen to a guided meditation on Insight Timer; most days I try to include some amount of silent meditation--just me and me. Slowing my breath, breathing more deeply make me feel less anxious. I usually meditate every day, even if it's just 3 minutes of breathing, which I did tonight.April Halprin Wayland, named UCLA Extension Writer's Program Outstanding Instructor of the Year, is the author of an award-winning YA novel in poems, children's poetry, and picture books, which have been praised by The New York Times, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly.
Her novel in poems for young teens, Girl Coming in for a Landing (Knopf) won the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Best Poetry Book, Penn State’s Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Award for Poetry, was Nominated by the American Library Association both as a Best Book for Young Adults, and as a Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers. It was selected for the California Collections by California Readers, and is a Junior Library Guild selection.
Her poetry has been published on the Poetry Foundation website and in more than 75 anthologies for children, including over 50 poems in Cricket Magazine, which invited her to write a poem for their 25th anniversary issue.
She's one of six children's authors on the blog, TeachingAuthors.com, through which she connects to the vibrant universe of children's poets in the Kidlitosphere, and Poetry Friday.
She's written a poem a day since 2010 and emails each to her best friend, children's author and poet Bruce Balan, who sends her his poem in return via sailmail. (Bruce has been sailing around the world with his wife for 15 years.)
On Instagram, she's @aprilwayland and on FB she's @April Halprin Wayland.
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