My Favorite Sad Children’s Book
The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes (illus. Louis Slobodkin) Wanda Petronski lives on the wrong side of the tracks. She comes to school every day in the same ratty blue […]
The Joys of Sadness
Last week a couple of little girls came into my wife’s library and asked, “Do you have any sad books?” What a great question. There’s a lot to love about […]
Audience Participation Friday: Domestic Wildlife
Friends, readers–I am thankful for Audience Participation Fridays. Keeping up with a blog is hard work, and as you may have noticed, I haven’t exactly been up to the challenge […]
Highbrow Music Day
Dear Reader, I invite you to unplug your ipods and/or put “Sweet Home Alabama” on pause for a few minutes. I heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago […]
The Boy Charlatan
Trickery. Tomfoolery. Hucksterism. The young man in this video could be a Floyd in the making.
Charlatan’s Boy Reviewed in WORLD Magazine
This week’s WORLD magazine features The Charlatan’s Boy among its notable books. Reviewer Susan Olasky does a great job of getting to the heart of the book. You can read […]
AfriGadgetry
My wife went to Uganda for a couple of weeks this past summer, and one of the things that she loved about the place was the resourcefulness and creativity of […]
Audience Participation Friday: Celebrity Sightings
What makes a good celebrity sighting? One key ingredient, of course, is the celebrity. But almost as important is the setting. Bruce Springsteen at the next gas pump is a […]
Nashville Living: The Tour Bus
Some friends of ours bought a house on the cul-de-sac where Tim McGraw and Faith Hill used to live. Every day, a couple of times a day, a tour bus […]
Audience Participation Friday: Better Jokes
For Audience Participation Friday last week I solicited unfunny jokes, and you, the readership, rose to the occasion with some jokes that were thoroughly unamusing. Having suffered through that together, […]