This past weekend, the House of Glee attended Steamcon III, an annual steampunk convention. This year's theme was 20,000 Leagues Under ...

Go to Sleep, Gecko! a Balinese folktale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, has a message that is oft-quoted in our house: "Some things...

You wanted more kvetching instead of sweetness and light... you've got it. I'm going to spend the rest of the week being thankful, ...

In the comments of the last post, Tanita suggested, "Why not write complaints for a couple of weeks? You certainly don't have to be...

I thought I had already written about the Third Annual Kidlitosphere Conference , or "KidLitCon" as people are starting to call it...

It's past 1 pm, and my part in the Fourth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge is done. I'm glad for the chance to have given myself permis...

When I picked up Neil Gaiman's picture-book called Blueberry Girl, I read through it and thought, "It's nice enough, but it doe...

Here's the thing: ever since I opened my doll shop on Etsy, I've been a lot busier. Things have been going really well this first we...

We've got a bit of snow , and we're supposed to prepare for more snow this weekend. I'm not worried about the snow, but I am a b...

A few years ago, I took part in an interview for a library job where one of the questions was, "Tell us about a situation in which ther...

This post was originally published on September 29, 2008. When I was in third grade, my teacher gave us two questions to prepare for debate:...

This photo of my daughter at the dentist has nothing to do with the post. I've been working on music for a poem that I'm going to fe...

Here is Part One SATURDAY The conference started at 8:10 am. Here was the agenda . I’ll admit that I had reservations about attending such a...

Preamble... You can find all sorts of in-depth coverage of the 2nd Annual Kidlitosphere Conference in Portland, Oregon here . You’ll see a l...

Four years ago, I was at a New Year's Day dinner with a lot of people I didn't know all that well. At one point, I mentioned to one ...

Last week, my daughter woke me up out of a deep sleep and asked, "Mommy, what song were you singing in my dream?" When I protested...

In my junior year at Goshen College , a small, liberal arts Mennonite school, I took an American Literature Survey course. Our big project f...

I made one of those "how well do you know me?" quizzes purely for amusement. This formatting on the original quiz website is funki...

This post was inspired by Adrienne's post in her Unpopular Library-Related Opinions series called, “To the Left,” or How to Ditch Your S...

This is the first year that anything has thrived in this shady part of the garden, as you can see here . All that changed when I realized th...