Tina Fey has said that her three-year-old’s cute phrasing sometimes ends up on 30 Rock–one of which is the phrase, “I want to go to there.” Do your days look like this? [From the Blue Yonder Ranch website] Do you want them to look differently? Now granted, the same amount of information could have been […]
How to Heal a Broken Wing
Curiosity and empathy are two traits I crave for Liliana. Of course, they can’t be forced. She has to see Dan and me practicing both on a daily basis. How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham is a perfect tool to encourage growth and foster discussion in these areas. A boy named Will […]
Pretty Amazing
Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me is being touted as a YA (young adult) novel, and I’m not sure why. I think it would be appropriate for precocious fourth and fifth graders, too. In fact, Monica Edinger at Educating Alice read it to her fourth grade class (an early edition of it, because it just […]
Is Your Soul Weighing You Down?
Okay, so Dan’s reading The New Yorker last night, and suddenly he says, “You have to do this on your blog!” He hands the magazine to me and points in the upper right-hand corner. It’s an advertisement for The Soul Storage Company with the caption: “Is your soul weighing you down? Store it! In a […]
Memories As Chemicals
Discover magazine has a fascinating article in the July/August 2009 issue called “Out of the Past” by Kathleen McGowan, discussing the changes in memory study. I’d link it here, but it’s not up on the Discover site yet (if it ever will be). First, I’ll preface this by reminding everyone that we’re made up of […]