I love Twitterature days. Once a month, Anne at Modern Mrs. Darcy hosts a link up of short, Twitter style book reviews. Below are my books for the month. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch has been all the rage lately. I’m sort of embarrassed to admit that I didn’t finish it. I LOVED the beginning but about midway […]
Read moreLast week I was lucky to hear Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and Glitter and Glue, speak at a luncheon in Darien. I will be reviewing Glitter and Glue at Great New Books in a few weeks so I will not write a review here yet. This is a post about doing things […]
Read more“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on […]
Read moreLast week, I started a new series called Book of the Week. After a question I received a few days ago, I decided my book this week is actually going to be a list of early chapter books. I received an e-mail from a friend asking for book suggestions. Her younger daughter is in Katherine’s […]
Read moreI don’t know who said, “The best camera is the one that you have with you.” but it sure is true. Last year I began to really use the camera on my iPhone and it has completely changed the way I take pictures. I have a ‘real’ camera too that I love but in truth, […]
Read moreOn Friday night, I attended a lecture presented by Jan Ressenger, an expert in the field of public education. We talked about many threats to equality in public schooling from standardized testing to charter schools to severe cuts in school budgets. While each of these factors are overwhelming and significant, nothing impacts the state of […]
Read more“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” -Roald Dahl For more moments, visit Amanda’s Soule Mama where she describes her Friday posts this way, “A Friday ritual. A single photo- […]
Read moreOne of my favorite blogs, Design Mom, has a weekly-ish feature that Gabrielle calls, “Book of the Week”. I have always loved this idea. For myself, I worry and over-think having a weekly feature but I’ve realized that I too can make it a weekly-ish feature and no one will be too upset. I plan […]
Read moreI’m taking a fun class through Big Picture Classes right now led by the amazing Ali Edwards. It is called 31 Things and each day Ali shares a writing and photo prompt. A few days ago the prompt was titled “You”. I thought it was a fun one to turn in to a blog post… […]
Read moreSomehow this baby is now ten and this Grandad has been gone for 7 years. Each year Groundhog’s Day comes and I add another tick to the calendar. Seven years now without Dad. It feels both so long ago and then like yesterday. When I think about the things that he has missed it feels […]
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