When people call for public education to go “back to the basics,” it reminds me of “readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic,” essential knowledge for all time. Imagine a one-room, frontier schoolhouse, something out […]
If I was a dragon, I’d hoard books.
Nearly every spring when I was a kid in the 1970s, growing up on a horse farm in rural central Illinois, we had ice storms. Often they came in the late afternoon, […]
So I finally got around to reading Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive. I follow him on Twitter, and a friend sent me a couple of quotes from him at important moments. […]
By Susan Lilley When I was a lucky, lucky child, summer was full of books and dreamy hours of not doing much. On vacations with my parents, I was responsible for nothing […]
The Gloria Sirens 