Books
Waiting for the Library to Open
Oh, how she loves the library. It’s difficult, some days, waiting till 10 am when the library opens. One of the many little things I will miss when school starts on tomorrow is our daily trip to the library.
Little Free Libraries in Seattle
our neighborhood is full of these Little Free Libraries, and it does help to build a sense of community in the neighborhood.
Books are magic
“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J.K. Rowling Case in point: let’s talk about that uneaten doughnut. With Pink Frosting.
Little Library
The fact that this little free library exists just fills my heart with joy.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood
The day started out with a plan, and it was all Gem’s idea. We were going to go on a walking tour of all the beautiful flowers in our new neighborhood.
Shark Girl: We’re gonna need a bigger boat
My little girl has been consumed by a shark obsession. She is SHARK GIRL. She even has a shark poster on her wall. Those cute little stains around her face are evidence of her other current obsession: frozen blueberries. and what book could consume her attention so completely? eek! how did she get her hands […]
Who in this room
I went straight to the bookstore after I got the “I’m sorry it’s cancer” phone call; surely amongst all the wisdom coded into letters and words, pressed to paper, and bound to books, would be some little snippet that would tell me how to move forward. Since that day I’ve read a lot of books about […]
Book Review: A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
Flannery O’Connor was not kind to the characters she created for her stories; they were deeply flawed, and in need of redemption. Ann Napolitano does not spare Flannery of those characteristics in her own novel, A Good Hard Look. It takes a certain level of confidence to fictionalize the last months of a famous American novelist’s life. Napolitano […]
Why Mommy can’t read
My father built floor to ceiling cupboards along the walls when he closed in the garage of my childhood home. The top shelf of these storage units was four feet from the ceiling, just enough space for a fourth grader to comfortably nest. I would climb to that top shelf with a blanket, a pillow, […]
My Little Librarian
This little one loves books