Summer and winter–that’s what we’ve got in this one. I know we’ve entered the month that holds the official first day of summer, but I couldn’t resist sharing a video about making a winter cloak. Turn up the AC and enjoy!< Around the Web Take Five Minutes for Mom this Summer Summertime is a delight, […]
Growing Young Gracefully – Reviewing Christopher Robin
Someone somewhere once said, “Youth is wasted on the young!” But is that true? Maybe it should be said, “Middle-age is wasted on the shriveled!” How does a person enter the prime of his life and one day wake up to find a shell of himself, a wizened soul covered in a brittle exo-skeleton of […]
Hello my name is . . . (and why it matters)
Hola, me llamo . . . I filled in my name big and purple on the adhesive nametag and stuck it on my shirt, the one with the bold graphic of Totoro, a Japanese anime character. Anime always serves as a good conversation starter when I lead writing workshops at the local teen center. That […]
The Warren & the World Vol 7, Issue 21
There’s a piece below written by my friend Sally Zaengle that might not be for the squeamish. I mean, there’s nothing graphic depicted in it, but with a few brief words Sally stimulates the imagination to know exactly how bad the injury was. But it’s worth the read–I promise, oh faint hearts–for Sally has a gift of […]
The Endless Steppe, by Esther Hautzig
“The morning it happened — the end of my lovely world — I did not water the lilac bush outside my father’s study.” The lilt of Esther Hautzig’s memory of exile in Siberia–seared by privation, filth, and loss–keeps an almost magical, storybook intonation. Her cadences are soothing, even when her recollections are barbed. The World […]
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