dancing, dazzling Josephine Baker
by Wendy Lawrence I love a book that you can’t easily categorize, and this is one of them. At first glance, you think it’s a picture book, bright and boldly covered. But it’s also thick, almost like a...
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My memories of my camping experiences include mostly the one where I was stepped on by a horse and one where a counselor carried me upside down across a lunchroom and plopped me at a table of...
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Each silver snowflake sings my name. Guess what? No two sound the same. I love LOVE LOVE that last line. We all know that no two snowflakes look alike, but that they sound differently? When they call...
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I react to the mail the way the citizens do in the Music Man when the Wells Fargo wagon comes to town. I’ve even been known to sing when a package arrives. Even in the days of online shopping, when...
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I love my sister. AND (As a teacher writing comments about kids a lot I was taught never to say BUT in situations like this) :), my memories of her learning to play the violin are not pleasant ones....
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