The other night, I posted on Facebook, “People have been talking to me nonstop today. That’s probably not quite accurate, but it feels like it is. Is this what being a parent feels like?” In minutes, I had 25 comments from friends in the parenting trenches, adding things like, “Never. Ever. Stops. My kids even talk […]
Review: Return to the Willows
Return to the Willows by Jacqueline Kellyis a delightful and entertaining read. If I were to create a best books for laughing out loud list, this book would rank toward the top. It is Jacqueline Kelly’s sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows. The story begins with dear friends, Mole and Rat, enjoying a […]
Holy Imaginations on Vacation by Jeannie Whitlock
Well, I guess we won’t be riding elephants. Today’s naptime brought me two children cozied into their restorative alone-time, and a lot of information about Bali’s most horrifyingly destructive tourist activities. It didn’t start out that way. I’d tucked the kids in, then began researching fun things to do on our family getaway to Bali. […]
The Warren & the World Vol 7, Issue 7
I sat last night with a group of women over a meal, each telling parts of her story to the others. There were dramatic parts, there were sad parts, there were beautiful parts. And every single story–long and short–led the woman to the table where we all sat. It’s a powerful thing, telling our stories […]
Review: A Year in the Big Old Garden
My love of stories with characters who are animals probably started with Beatrix Potter and Winnie-the-Pooh when I was too young to remember. As I got older I found Brian Jacques’s Redwall series and Watership Down and The Book of the Dun Cow and S.D. Smith’s Green Ember series and others. Towering above all these […]
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