Katie and Kevin Crumbo give marriage a good name. Seriously – are they ever sharp with each other? I’m trying to figure out their secret. Maybe it’s Katie’s unflagging good cheer. Or Kevin’s kindness and patience. Her cute laugh? His warm smile?…
Maybe you’ve already got one – a book that takes you to a quiet place no matter what’s going on around you. If not, try Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley. A friend recently put this novel, published fifteen years ago,…
Dear Pepper is growing up, which hurts my heart and makes me glad at the same time. She doesn’t need me quite as much as she used to. She’ll sniff around the yard now without her favorite friend right by her…
Timiny Braemer strikes me as fearless. Friendly? Yes. Kind? Yes. Also fearless. “No question!” laughs her buddy, Daphne Butler. “And she is so darn capable. If she wanted to, Timiny could run a Fortune 500 company, hike the Matterhorn with…
Caroline Trost wears a pink wool coat in the winter, a soft flared coat that turns every head in the coffee shop. She has a pretty pink coat and pretty blonde hair and a black and white dog named Roscoe…
J.K. Rowling’s latest is perfect for a May graduate and – as a sidenote – might be just the encouragement you need yourself in a harried month. Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination is…
It’s pretty outside – sure – and we’ve got our own special Sunday, but May is a hot mess for mothers with school-age kids. Coping mechanisms include exercise, an extra glass of wine, and complaining. I’ve tried all three over the…
Author Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir in verse about growing up African American in the 1960s and 70s in South Carolina and New York. If you…
Did you see the interview with Diane Sawyer last night? Check out this Washington Post article for a summary or this Youtube video for 3 minutes of it. I think this counts as a cultural moment as well as a portrait…