An award-winning California poet, writer, and public school principal, Dr. Mary Langer Thompson was born in Illinois. She is active in the California Writer’s Club, High Desert Branch, and was California’s Senior Poet Laureate. She has given poetry and writing workshops and has authored poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Her books can be found on Amazon. Your recent book, The Gull Who Thought He Was Dull, is a beautifully color-illustrated book for young children about the adventures of Gus on the theme of self-worth. Your engaging word choices echo your background as a poet. How did you come to write it? Thank you. Back in the ’90s, my husband and I were on a road trip, and we do a lot of word play all the time. We came up with a title, Gull Ibble, the Gullible Gull, and for years I mulled over trouble a seagull could get into. When I joined my writers club, I joined a critique group, but there were no poets in the club at the time. So I dusted off my gull book and they loved it. They were going to have a Barnes and Noble reading and asked me to read. I said, “Sure, I can read some poems.” The continue...