Last week, I shared an amazing vintage Soviet children’s book that I found in a used book store. Today, I’m sharing the companion to that
The world lost a legend yesterday. This is my favorite picture of Pete Seeger. He’s in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during 1964’s Freedom Summer. Read more here,
We’re getting a new roof today. It’s exciting, in that we won’t have to worry about leaks. It’s unexciting, in that it’s a very expensive
I’ll bet you read that title and were expecting a little waving Lenin, weren’t you? As you may have noticed, Russian culture and I have
There are a million websites already talking about Dr. King and his holiday, and I’m not going to be the million and first to make
Y’all. This is how I feel when Bethany asks me a dinosaur-related question: In truth, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs at her age, so
And… it’s Thursday. And… the blog has been a little quiet. Sorry about that! To apologize, I’ll share a great series of early chapter books
This happened on Saturday. Bethany told me that she and Clara were building a clubhouse in the living room. I was doing dishes, so I
Here’s a moment of mothering honesty: my kids have watched way, way, way too much TV in the last few days. It was the end
Recently, I realized that I’ve been more than remiss in reading nursery rhymes to Clara. I read them daily to Bethany, but as Bethany has