I woke to the smell of bacon and coffee, familiar and pleasant and full of the promise of a new adventure. Rolling out of my sheet, I tossed my legs to the floor and dragged my boots towards me with my right foot. I slipped into the jeans draped over the foot of the bed […]

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau There is a language of imagination. Let’s call it imaginationish. It’s not actually a language, but more of a universal dialect. It is using words to describe things that the eye does not see, the ear does not hear, the […]

Research done at Temple University showed that paper books provide a more positive parent-child interaction for young children–and that electronic books dampen it. (In other words, a picture book helps a child most when it’s paper–not really any surprise to anyone who loves picture books. You know this but you love to hear it from […]