One of my favorite newly-discovered authors, Robin McKinley, produced a book in 2003 called Sunshine. I had savored her earlier young-reader novel The Hero and the Crown last winter and have since been searching for the sequel, The Blue Sword, at libraries. When I ran across Sunshine at my local library a couple of weeks […]
Yesterday afternoon a group of us pulled off the first Unity Café at the Bahá’í Unity Center in Forest Park. This was not an easy feat, considering that the center consists of a rather small, square-like room, a teeny bathroom, and a storage closet. There is no kitchen, no counter space, not even a shelf […]
While I am off visiting a college class at UMass today, my mother will be with my children, presumably making “creepcakes” such as the mummies seen here.
Too bad I can’t show you all of the decorating ideas, as they are published in the paper version of Martha Stewart Kids magazine, but not online. The recipes […]
Rob Corddry of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” will now be taking over what used to be Stephen Colbert’s segment called “This Week in God.” Why? Because Colbert is leaving “The Daily Show” for his own spinoff, “The Colbert Report.” From the New York Times article on the subject:
“God has an exclusive licensing agreement with […]
I was over at Barbie’s the other day. She was catching up on some emails after a weekend in Hawaii, only home for a few days in preparation for a cruise embarking from Anchorage, Alaska. She has been on a kick to visit every state of the country before the year 2010. I can barely […]
After the zoo this summer trying to figure out how to get my kids back to their original public school, and struggling with whether I would spend my year home-schooling or trying to earn a little money from home, I landed in September with a thud, a sore back, and a fair degree of total […]