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Treasures 27 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
She’ll perch on a stool and play with the wooden dolls on my shelves by the hour. This is how Sunday afternoon unfolds: her soft doll-chatter murmuring beside me while I’m reading, studying, or (as wa...
“Think of a book…” 21 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
“…any book. It’s hard to think of a really bad book this way, but think of a good book, one of your favorite books ever, as like a newborn child, a newborn child brought into the world. A book. Probab...
Round Buildings, Square Buildings, Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish 21 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Image source: Wikimedia Commons I’ve written about this book before: “Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson. Twelve years ago, this children...
The Prairie Thief in Paperback 20 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
Hurrah! I love it when a book comes out in paperback. Such a thrill to know it will reach a new audience. Handy-dandy purchasing links for you, because I’m helpful like that: Amazon • B&N • Indiebou...
The Well-Appointed Medical Kit 19 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
Medicine bottle, pills, otoscope, reflex hammer, cellphone, stethoscope, syringe, and of course stickers. What more does a good doctor need?
Heads up, Feedly’s being weird 17 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
If you’re a Feedly reader and my previous post seemed to end abruptly, it’s a glitch I can’t get to the bottom of…for no reason I can fathom, my blog is now appearing excerpt-only there. For some peop...
Things We Did This Week 17 Aug 2013 | 08:12 am
Only some of them, you understand. Most of the game-playing and show-watching and walk-taking happens during my work time. Wonderboy started back to school on Tuesday. That kicked the rest of us into...
First Minnesota 16 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
Image source: Wikimedia Commons. Reading this story, my heart is in my throat. The Battle of Gettysburg, Day 2, July 2nd, 1863. “The scene is the center of the American line. Most of the attacks on...
Here Comes High Tide 15 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center by Joy Hakim. Our history spine for the high-tide parts of our year. Yup, history: Hakim’s Story of Science series takes a historical-biographical approach t...
65 Minutes Left to Back Rachel and the Treeschoolers 15 Aug 2013 | 04:57 am
UPDATE: The Kickstarter campaign is over and was a tremendous success. We’re looking forward to episodes 2-6! *** My kids loved the first Treeschoolers episode. We’re thrilled the Kickstarter campai...
