Story Warren Weekend, Vol. 13, Issue 39
Last week I visited Boston in the Fall (thank you, VeggieTales, for that particular turn of phrase), and I remain convinced that New England in October is a foretaste of the Kingdom.
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: As Spooky As You Want Them to Be (and Maybe Not At All)
The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again.
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Review: The Song of the Stone Tiger
Fiction ought to make us ask, “What if it’s real?” In our broken world, the best stories should help us believe that something better is coming—that something better is possible. Glenn McCarty’s new title, The Song of the Stone Tiger, does just that.
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It’s Hobbit Day!
In the world of Middle-earth, today is the birthday of two distinguished hobbits: Bilbo Baggins of the Shire and his nephew, Frodo. It is, of course, the auspicious occasion of Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday party, which is the opening scene of The Fellowship of the Ring. This same day was Frodo’s coming of age at the…
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Bed in Summer
If you’re looking to start reading poetry regularly in your family, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is an excellent place to begin. You may be surprised at how some of the poems are already familiar to you! The following poem is one of our favorites from the collection, and it comes first…
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Back to School: Beware the New Notebook Energy
Note: this post was originally written for New Year’s, but I find that moms might need a reminder of New Notebook Energy at this time of year, too. Whether you’re scheduling your kids’ year at school or drawing up your homeschool plans, the temptation to Get It Right This Time is ever with us, isn’t…
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Welcome The Green Writer Show!
In case you missed it: this past Friday, we dropped the first three episodes of our new podcast, The Green Writer Show. This new show will concentrate on encouraging the young writers among us—those who are just getting going, or those who make writing a regular part of their lives. This is a project that…
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Honest, Simple Pleasures: A Short Biography of Beatrix Potter
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London…but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country. –Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter was born July 28, 1866. She…
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The Warren & The World, Vol 13, Issue 26
Pinch-hitting for your usual Warren & the World editor this week is your Story Warren editor, Kelly! I knew when Carrie needed a sub this week that I could use the phrase “pinch-hit,” and she would know exactly what I meant. We are both baseball-watchers, Carrie and I. The kind of baseball friends who send…
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He Loved the World: A Short Biography of E.B. White
“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. I guess you can find that in there, if you dig around.” – EB White
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A Heart for Ukraine
My family and I are in Ukraine right now visiting dear friends and family here, as well as the orphanage my adopted sisters grew up in.
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Cloud Mountain
We recently got a bunny, promptly named him Pickett, and built a Green Ember inspired play area for him.
