My friend and KidsOutAndAbout publisher, Deb, has written a book! It’s Seasons and Reasons: A Parent’s Guide to Cultivating Great Kids, and actually, if you’re already signed up for the newsletter, some of it will look familiar. It’s a collection of her publisher’s notes, with all sorts of brief, thoughtful essays on parenting that will … [Read more…]
It was Harry Potter night at the kids’ elementary school. Although they’ve been playing Quidditch in gym for years, our school was fairly late in adopting the sort of Hogwarts extravaganza that other schools have been doing for years. But the organizers did an awesome job. The decor in particular was fabulous. Here’s where we … [Read more…]
I read a lot. I have a running list of books that I want to read that always gets longer faster than I can actually read. When I browse at bookstores, I generally have a pen and a pad so that I can write down authors and titles as I go. Tonight, Cute W and … [Read more…]
Okay, I’m going to try to shape up, posting-wise. First I’ve been meaning to catch you up on all of our current book favorites. J, the 8-year-old, has been listening to Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles. M advised her that the Percy Jackson books are better, but we had The Red Pyramid in the house … [Read more…]
We’ve read a few good books lately, so I thought I’d share. The first happy surprise was Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt. I mentioned that this book was on my “to read” list after my sisters and I saw Mary Sharratt speak at the Savannah Book Festival, but I was … [Read more…]
I was volunteering at the school library today for M’s class, and the kids were having a great time watching each other’s videos that they’d produced as part of a library project. They were supposed to create a short persuasive film about why a particular book should be chosen by the Newbery or Caldecott award … [Read more…]
Someone shared the Funniest AutoCorrects of 2012 on Facebook, and I laughed very hard. So read it. But make sure that, if your kids are old enough to read, they are far away. Otherwise they will hear you guffawing and come running in and they will learn a whole bunch of words that are entirely … [Read more…]
Hey everyone. I have emailed the winners of the Taylor Mali giveaway, but I haven’t received replies from them yet, which explains the delay. Nope. What really explains the delay is that I neglected to email at noon and instead I finally got around to it at dinner time. Anyway, if you did not win, … [Read more…]
Hello! Remember I was talking recently about Taylor Mali coming soon? Well, as luck would have it, I have a four extra tickets. Don’t ask: it’s a long story. But hooray for you! Because now maybe you can go! For free! So, if you’d like to win free tickets to see this awesome slam … [Read more…]
I’m super-excited because once again Taylor Mali will be appearing at our church, the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady, on Thursday, November 8th at 8 pm. I’ll be reminding you about this later with the listings, but I wanted to give him an early plug, because I went when he performed here last year, and it … [Read more…]
