Writing the good read
I had some great English teachers in high school — women who challenged my thinking and my reading. They exposed me to authors I’d never have come to on my own (Heinrich Böll), and spurred me to dig deeper into the writing of authors who are part of almost every high school syllibus (the entire…
I think the first time I used the phrase “I’m with the band” — apart from in junior high when I played flute in an actual band — was in high school when I somehow became attached to a band called Flight. In case you can’t tell from the photo below, it was the 1980s….
I went to see The Castaways at Urban Coffee Lounge in Kirkland tonight. It’s a ukulele band that does cover songs from the ’80s. I’ll give you a minute while you read that sentence again. They’re fabulous. You wouldn’t think a bunch of ukuleles and some drums could sound so cool, but they do. The…
I have a friend who, rather than watching television, spends evenings trawling through YouTube for fun videos. I have to admit, I never spent much time on the site. Sometimes my brother — who apparently doesn’t have a lot to do — will send me a link to something funny. Or that he thinks is…
I read with interest your plans to publish a sanitized version of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. I know that removing the “N” word is controversial, but you really just want to protect sensibilities of those who are offended by the word. I get it. So here are some other books I think you should consider…
My husband and I bonded as we courted over your photos. We have just about every book you ever published — children’s and art. The only missing one is a counting board book that had one entry featuring a stuffed bear with really googly eyes. It totally freaked out my son so we had to…