Reading Jean Thompson’s The Year We Left Home is a little like surviving a year in the Midwest. If you come here in the late spring it’s all glorious warm days and cool nights and…
Date Archives August 2011
For fat kids, it will never get better
“Ellen” this morning was a rerun. First Lady Michelle Obama was on talking about her anti-obesity platform and something about military families. While Michelle and Ellen bantered, the First Lady commended Ellen about her work…
How young are you?
“Woah,” Nolan said. “What is that?” He was sitting in the front seat of Ruby, and we were zooming down the backroads headed back to his house. Liam was in the back cradling the KitKat…
A book for kids that you will totally love
Back in the olden days of the early 1980s, “The Wizard of Oz” was event TV. My sisters and I would flop belly-down in front of the TV, chins propped on our hands and watch…
A Good Hard Look review over at BlogHer Bookclub
If you head on over to the BlogHer Bookclub you can read my review of A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano. The book features Flannery O’Connor as a character, which sounds totally awesome. Sadly,…
Things that dismayed The Tibbles today (abridged)
I wouldn’t let them have any coffee even though they really love coffee and they know because I let them dunk their fingers in my cold, hours old coffee that one time. My singing, specifically…
Franklin’s disruptions
So, have you met Franklin? Probably not. He’s my Roku box and lets me stream crap to my TV. I named it Franklin because when I registered on Roku it asked for a name and…
Why going to Best Buy is sheer hell
Today I got my itty bitty Roku box. I named it Franklin because it asked for a name. After tearing open the package and giving a cursory glance at the instructions, I discovered that I…
Silver Girls
Dana and Chaurisse are sisters growing up in Atlanta of the 1980s. Chaurisse is the plain, flute-playing one. Dana’s the beautiful scientific-minded one. Oh, and she’s also a secret. The sisters’ father, James Witherspoon, is…
Surprise! Women will also have books published this fall
Yes, women have written books that are going to be published this fall. In fact, women have written books that other people are actually really excited to read. Of course, this might be hard to…