A year and a couple of weeks ago, we started reading chapter books at bedtime. We all curl up in Baguette’s bed and read the next installment of the current...
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Give One Book: Warren Mott High School
I love books. I love reading. And I want other people to have the chance to read, too. Too many students in this country don’t have that opportunity. We can...
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BookTalk: More Please, The Hungry Animal Book
Dorothy Kunhardt is famous for writing Pat the Bunny. She also wrote More Please, which we discovered via Baguette’s speech therapist and may be the most maddening thing we own....
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Your Mileage May Vary
This morning, when I took Baguette to daycare, she was excited to be there. She opened the door to the classroom without being prompted, and she ran up to a...
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It Could–Would–Have Been So Much Worse
Another writing prompt from Ginger at Ramble Ramble: Tell us a story from ninth grade. Okay. Just before ninth grade, my family moved from Maryland to Texas. As far as...
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Reading Over the Holidays
Here’s what I’d like to read this week: Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad The Truth of All Things by Kieran Shields Here’s what I think I might actually...
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On Reading
I’ve always loved to read. I started reading on my own at age four and just kept going. I almost always have a book with me (particularly now that I...
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Read Any Good Books Lately?
It’s been a while for me–well, not that I haven’t been reading, but I haven’t been reading books about parents and/or families, or related issues. Meanwhile, Baguette has been exhibiting...
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Go, Dog, Go!
Baguette loves books, but she won’t let me read to her. She grabs the book out of my hand and goes through the pages in whatever order makes sense to...
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Domestic Bliss
Mr. Sandwich and I are sitting on the couch, as we do. Each of us leans against one end so that both of us can stretch out. It’s cozy and...