A Parent's Expectations: Looking back, Carolyn Walker writes that it was good that she and her husband didn’t know what to expect when their daughter Jennifer was diagnosed with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome shortly after her first birthday. They believed she would be “delayed,” and they nurtured her as such. Soon, it became apparent that she would be far from "normal." In Every Least Sparrow, … [Read more...]
Fun with math. Really.
Playing Foxland! I have to share this amazing math game my granddaughter made for school called "Foxland." We had so much fun playing the other day. Actually, I was quite pleased to discover that I remembered how to use a multiplication table. My skills are a little rusty. The game pieces are little foxes! The game moves really fast. You pick a card and solve the math problem (such as 5 x … [Read more...]
American Girl Sensibility
Birthday fun: For my granddaughter's ninth birthday, my daughter and I took her to the American Girl Doll store in Chicago. I had been unaware of the evolution of this iconic doll since my daughter had Molly in the 80s. The Atlantic lamented in 2013, after Mattel purchased the company, that the dolls and their stories have been more or less sanitized, and a "lost sensibility about … [Read more...]
Can Twitter Help You Finish Your Book?
Today's post about how Twitter can actually help you finish your book is from award-winning author A.B. Funkhauser, whom coincidently I met on Twitter! Finish that WIP: A friend recently asked me to fly to England and finish his work in progress (WIP). He was kidding, of course. I had just typed “The End” on a manuscript that had joyously taken up fifteen months of my life, and somewhere … [Read more...]
Wading into Writing for Children
It began with a Ghost Crab Incident On a family vacation last summer, my daughter took my then 8-year old granddaughter and 3-year old grandson to the beach after dusk to look for Atlantic ghost crabs (they're most active in the evening). Dozens of them were skittering around, and it was fun watching them until a large crab startled Oliver by running across the top of his shoe. That was it. From … [Read more...]
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