Things like Katy sees them.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2009
One of the most helpful things I’ve heard about books and kids was from Jerram Barrs at last year’s L’Abri conference, speaking on Harry Potter. A mom asked him how old a child needed to be before hearing or reading the stories. Jerram mentioned that he read The Lord of the Rings to his grandchildren [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2009
Is there anything sweeter than twin eleven year olds knocking down your door all week, asking to bake cookies?
One day they forgot, then I forgot, and we made plans for today at 2. They started knocking at 11:30. As I’d gotten up at 11 after reading Andrew Peterson’s wonderful On the Edge of the Dark [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2009
So friends, At the invitation of Andrew Peterson, proprietor of The Rabbit Room, I wrote something of a review and consideration of a panel discussion on Flannery O’Connor that I attended. Want to read? It’s at http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=1599 See you soon, off to read the last section of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter before bedtime… XOXO
