Here’s my opinion on Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games.” Yeah, it’s a little dystopian-gory, but you should read it, and your kids should read it, and your teachers should read it out loud to your tweenagers. When Sadie came home to tell me sixth grade was hearing it read aloud by their teacher — holyContinue reading “Make them precocious readers.”
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Recommendations, summer edition.
So is everyone to the point of having had the wheels fall off the summer bus, or just me? Just me? OK, I guess that’s fine. Got a couple random things to impart, and since the blog is of course growing moldy, as realistically I knew it would from the get-go, which is why IContinue reading “Recommendations, summer edition.”
A September Thursday.
This fine Thursday, I woke up to essentially the same to-do list as Tuesday, so I went outside and took photos. As one does. The to-do list would take a whole, oh, I don’t know, two hours? — not including paying work — if I would just get started. That getting started part has evidentlyContinue reading “A September Thursday.”
A list of books for second-graders.
Life is a little frantic, is it not? We flit from task to task to task (we? maybe just I) and somehow a month passes, or two, and the thing that was top of mind is infrequently even on the radar. If I’d had a little foresight — seriously, we can all just agree nowContinue reading “A list of books for second-graders.”
Prairie in the title: “Prairie Nocturne.”
I do sometimes choose a book by the cover or the title, or both, and goodness, do I love it when that works out. Case in point: By the time I was halfway through “Prairie Nocturne,” I’d texted my mom, Tara, and two friends to tell them to read it. I concede the dubious qualityContinue reading “Prairie in the title: “Prairie Nocturne.””
All the news that is news.
Leo the gold-plated cat continues his reign as King House Cat. He is in as much as he is out, but as long as we don’t have a recurrence of mice in the house because he’s getting too lazy, I’m going to put up with it. Once in a while I luck out with aContinue reading “All the news that is news.”
A reminder of why.
What do you tell a daughter who wants “Wacky Wednesday” when you want breakfast? You say, “Go ask your sister.” And then three girls read it together and you say a small prayer of thankfulness for small blessings and take their picture. I suspect she who wanted “Wacky Wednesday” is going to be very literallyContinue reading “A reminder of why.”
This Prairie Life. 