I went to 6 different schools from K-9. My parents, introverts both, didn't teach me how to navigate the social cues at school. And I often had to learn the hard way how to deal with people until I finally figured it out - 30 years later. In 8th grade - a period of my …
Continue reading 365 Books: I am Running Away Today by Lisa Desimini
Yesterday I described a book that is brilliant for its simplicity. This one is wonderful for its complexity. And yet the emotions are simple. A kid has an opportunity to swap something useless (his dad, who does nothing but sit around, reading the newspaper - useless!) for something cool (two goldfish). When mom gets home, …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Picture this: you are walking down a hallway at work. Coming toward you, from the other end of the hallway, is a colleague. Your eyes meet and dart away. You have already seen them that day and greeted them Good Morning but now what do you do? It would seem rude to walk past them …
I'm a history buff - I love reading about the middle ages, the distant past, the wild west. I've read about British colonial women in India, weather in the dark ages, the impact of diseases on culture and civilization, ancient Israel, and early European explorers in South America and Africa. All of which you will …
Continue reading 365 Books: Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick
At Thanksgiving we went to visit my sister in Reno. We arrived a few days early, hit Death Valley - totally awesomely beautiful - then followed Google Maps directions through a bunch of sagebrush and really, really small towns in the middle of absolutely nowhere.... It got darker and darker, and started to rain, and …
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