Last night I finished Fallen Angels , by Walter Dean Myers. I didn't actually choose this book to read; a parent had complained about i...

I always enjoy reading the overviews and "best of" lists published this time of year. Here's a particularly delicious one: B...

Lots of bloggers are posting lists of all the books they read in 2006. I don't know all of them. A lot, though. A few years ago I kept...

Well, new to me, anyway. Today I found this one , and specifically these posts , which brought tears to my eyes. Some more I found and am p...

Some of the books I read to my son today: Possum Come a-Knockin' , by Nancy van Laan Cookie Soup and Other Good-Night Stories, by Michae...

I went to school today. I managed to stay away for a week, and today I just stopped in briefly to get a book. While I was there I noticed ...

School's out, but there's still a Carnival!

Today we'll sing Good King Wenceslas , and we might have to try this version as well, which makes no sense. Here's some more infor...

Take a look at the Christmas photos from Paris , London , and Sydney, Australia . (I wanted to show you a Christmas beach photo from a DP b...

Have you read the story about the "true meaning" of the Twelve Days of Christmas? I had read it before, and when it was shared at...

Someone on an email list was asking about this book, and I dug around for my review that I wrote just over two years ago for the subscriptio...

It's a multicolored Christmas this year. You can have a blue Christmas , a green Christmas , or possibly a traditional white Christmas. ...

I got the highest score yet - 9/12! Go on, see if you can beat me.

For my book club, I recently read Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life , by Elaine Orr. We had a good discussion about it, and ...

The BBC links today to several Iraqi bloggers .

Take a look at the the 98th Carnival of Education over at The Median Sib .

NPR had a piece this morning about how all this light is perhaps overrated. Sure, easy for them to say. And as for our electricity, it was...

If you read yesterday's post, no doubt you were impressed by my serenity even when surrounded by small boys hitting each other with brig...

I got tagged by Dr. Bacchus . I'm supposed to tell you five things you don't know about me. If you don't know something, there...

The Queen of England has never used a computer. And here are 99 other things that the BBC didn't know this time last year.