A Review of The Beastie of Brambly Bald Visits to the library often find my tween daughter strolling the stacks, eager to discoverher next read. She’s unearthed many favorite stories this way. But she’s also uncovered somefinds that I’m uncertain of. I’ve spent lots of time searching the Internet and online groups tohelp my daughter…
The highway stretches before us. We’re ten minutes into the hours-long car ride, but already, our four kids clamor for a movie. My husband and I glance at each other, silently calculating if 15 hours of screen time in two days is too much. One of us admits aloud that it is. So we put…
A Sweet Treat to Help Kids Fight Envy “Stop being impatient!” I say to my impatient children, in a very impatient way. It is 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday, but I’m not sure the time or day matters. Any day of the week at any hour, it is possible that my kids reflect a weaknesses…
We pulled a plastic case from the fireplace mantle, our special home for three Monarch butterfly eggs we’d received from a friend. The pencil-tip sized eggs stuck to each milkweed leaf, the Monarch mother’s way of keeping her babies out of harm’s way. We studied each one, all of us wondering how we might…
For five years, we built a life outside of Philadelphia while my husband attended seminary. As those years came to a close, I gave birth to our fourth (a boy), my husband graduated, and we put our house on the market. Our church merged with another and our time there came to an end. When…
