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The Manifesto, so to speak
When I was a kid, I spent most of my time in the nineteenth century. It all started with the Little House books. My grandmother read them to me, and they became my very first chapter books that I...
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Judging a book by its cover. . .
This past weekend, I was very, very excited to find a boxed set of Anne, 1-3. Of course, this may be considered odd by some since I have more than a few copies of Anne. And it’s not like these are...
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Pilgrimages
This afternoon, while attempting to be domestic, I caught up with one of my favorite NPR programs, This American Life. A few weeks ago, they aired a new episode called “The Book That Changed Your...
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Beyond the frontier
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes...
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Power of Place
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the unique magic of literary places. Not that this is something I never think of (see previous posts here and here), but it’s really come...
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School days
Today is the first day of school for most of my Texas neighbors. We also had a record high temperature of 107, but that’s beside the point. Depressing, but not the point. School is a really big part...
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Christmas Classics
Though it’s not quite the holiday season yet, I’ve spent much of this morning reading Christmas scenes from various children’s books. For Candlelight (the museum’s biggest event of the year), I...
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Evangelism
My poor, neglected blog. I knew it had been a long time, but I hadn’t realized it had been over two months. Sheesh! And it’s not like I’ve quite dropped off the face of the earth or stopped...
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Timeless
This year marked the 40th anniversary of my museum’s biggest event of the year, Candlelight. As part of the anniversary, we created a small exhibit and I researched the history of the event. One...
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When bedtime stories and headlines collide
It’s not often that I get the pleasure of reading books aloud to little ones. The local nephews are either way too big (18 years old!) or way too little (7 months old). There are no local nieces....
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