One of my favorite books got reviewed at Story Warren this week. It’s a beautiful look at a relationship between siblings. If you’ve got sibling children in your life, they might be a little young for Jacob Have I Loved, but maybe you need to give it another read. Check out Aimee’s review below and remember […]
Review: Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
Anyone who has grown up as a sibling knows there is emotional processing that continually goes on as each sibling deals with the attentions, or lack of attentions, of others. Sibling rivalry and jealousy are natural things. I see it in my children as they fight for the front seat of the car. I see […]
The Summer of my Extroverted Child
Editor’s Note: Let’s have another look at this classic summertime post from 2017. It’s a good one! I’m 45-years-old, sitting in a locked bedroom, with one towel wrapped around my body and another wrapped around my hair. I’m wearing this because I’m hiding from my extroverted child. Over the past twenty years, I have learned […]
The Warren & the World Vol 7, Issue 30
I’m writing this on World Cat Day. Usually social media informs me of these things and I don’t know until the day is mostly over. Just so you know, this week also held National Frozen Custard Day and National Happiness Happens Day. Oh, and National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. I’m really sorry you […]
Louis L’Amour and the Moral Imagination
Note: This article first appeared at rabbitroom.com, a fantastic resource for beauty of many kinds. My brother, Orrin Sackett, was big enough to fight bears with a switch. Me, I was the skinny one, tall as Orrin, but no meat to my bones except around the shoulders and arms. The Daybreakers, 1984 The other day […]
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