Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, The young are beautiful – but the old are more beautiful than the young.” – Walt Whitman I remember reading these words by Whitman for the first time a couple of years ago. As a thirty-six-year old mother, being neither very young nor very […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Every bud whispers the truth. No wonder I feel so much joy among the trees and flowers! May you feel Christ’s presence in your garden, in your church, in your home, or wherever you may be this Easter weekend. Love, Carol
He says riding feels like flying. Wearing that ball cap, grinning, he looks like he did when we fell in love at 19. Strangely, I can’t recall a single motorcycle on the illustrated pages of a picture book. Ralph, riding a toy one in the middle-grade novel The Mouse and the Motorcycle is little comfort. […]
Have you ever met someone whose storytelling ability is even more wonderful than the stories themselves? I haven’t met Kate DiCamillo face to face, but when I’m reading her work, I’m astounded by the tapestry of her words. Simply by describing a setting, this master storyteller can spin my mind into a place rich with […]
A Children's Book World 