Tag: kids

“…and we change with them.”

October 26, 2014 at 11:11 pm

When I moved to Michigan in 1996, one of the first things I set out to do in my new hometown was find a comic book store. Finding the right comic book store is like finding the right church. And more difficult in a town where there is a church […]

Shared Mythologies

February 14, 2013 at 12:01 pm

I wrote a little something about bedtime stories for my friend Jeff Hite’s website. Here’s how it begins… A few nights ago I was sitting with my daughter Sophie, looking through A Children’s Treasury of Mythology. She’s three years old and one of her favorite things is to go through […]

On Sand

June 13, 2012 at 8:26 am

In which a sandbox is procured, children graduate, and old authors pass on.

“Almost four million children…”

December 7, 2011 at 2:20 am

“Almost four million children in the UK do not own a book, according to a report by the National Literacy Trust. …Poorer children and boys were less likely to have books, it added. …About a fifth of children said they had never been to a book shop or a library.” […]

On Boxes, Books, Ballet, and Birthdays

June 4, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Turning 40? Nothing to it really, once everything was said and done. With chaotic detritus from the recent move still littering areas of the new house (and my own psyche), we celebrated my fortieth birthday a bit early on Saturday night by escaping to my favorite restaurant, Tres Lobos. No […]