A Picture Book to Fuel Your Figure Skating Reverie

Last night, I stayed up to watch ice dancing on the Olympics.  To me, ice dancing is a picture of what two souls are experiencing while falling in love.  Each ice dance is like watching a romantic movie condensed into a couple of minutes. I felt this beauty when I was a little girl, and […]

Picture Books as Interior Design Manuals (Part I)

This is the first post in a series on decorating your home according to children’s books.    What I’ve always wanted most in a house is coziness— a house that smiles, a home that points to heaven.   What  better place to get decorating ideas than from the pages of children’s books! Goodnight Moon is a good […]

Your Own Glowing Egg

What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada is a powerful picture book.    Read it, and you may learn (or remember) something about yourself.  To my husband, it was a book about riding motorcycles.  To me, it was about being brave enough to finish writing the novel I tucked away after someone didn’t […]