I woke up thinking about the scene in The Long Winter, where Pa shakes his fist at the blizzard and loses it. And wondered, who was he really yelling at?
Tag: Reading
365 Books: Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#365Books My final post in my 2024 series, about how reading ruined this author and what I learned this year, writing about 366 books.
Crowding Out Pain
On November 9, I wrote about an experience I had with my 2-year old niece, the first time her parents left her with someone else (me) for a couple of hours, while they went to the bank. How, when she finally realized they weren’t there, she searched for them, and then cried, then went into …
Lessons from First Graders
Last week, the book selected for reading to first graders (the volunteer work I do) was The Rainbow Fish. Although I have known of the Rainbow Fish for years, this was the first time I had actually read it. While we were waiting for the kids to arrive, I flipped through the book and took …
Little Apartment on the Middle East Side
I am a huge Laura Ingalls Wilder fan. There I said it. I not only own the whole series (unremarkable), I reread them annually. Ever since I was a little girl, I have had a tradition of cranking the A/C up super high and hunkering down under a blanket during the peak of summer to …
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