If you live in the upper latitudes, you’ll know that daylight is a fleeting thing, and its hours are constantly changing. This is confusing to a little girl who doesn’t know how to tell time yet. So. We’ve bought a Good Nite Lite, which has not only saved us, but delights her every time it […]
Persistence & Other Such Things When It Comes to Writing
A few interesting articles in November’s Poets & Writers Magazine. Check out the Agents & Editors Q & A with Jonathan Karp, editor in chief of Twelve. Obviously, Twelve is doing something right (publishing one book a month). Fifteen of the first thirty books published by Twelve have been New York Times bestsellers. There’s much […]
Children See. Children Do.
Sobering, and too close to home. What responsibilities we have as parents, let alone as human beings! Don’t think for one minute you have no impact in this world. You do. [For more information on the video and soundtrack, go to The Inspiration Room Daily.]
Franny and Zooey
Why haven’t I read this novel until now? Why, oh why? Why wasn’t it the first thing I picked up after Catcher in the Rye? I’m not sure. WARNING: for those of you who have chosen, in life, not to surround yourself with bad language, then this is not the book, nor the post, for […]
Lady Bug Swarm
We entertain these visitors every year. Usually they descend around the middle of September, but now that we’ve had ONE warm day, it happened today. Flying swarms of lady bugs everywhere (although they’ll tell you they’re asiatic beetles). Whatever they are, they’re into everything, and they have the ability to slip through doorjambs and window […]